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Bobby Baker An Edible Family in a Mobile Home (1976)
‘Baker originally staged her installation over the course of a week in 1976 in her prefab Acme house in Stepney, East London. Visitors ate pieces of her cake ‘family’ and Baker served cups of tea, performing the role of polite female host. The family members occupied various rooms in Baker’s home, whose walls were plastered in newspaper cuttings and decorated with icing, scenting the air with sugar. In the living room, a father made of fruit cake slumped in an armchair surrounded by tabloid newspapers; in the bath, a teenage son made of garibaldi biscuits lay in chocolate cake bathwater against a background of comics; and in the kitchen, a mother constructed from a dressmaker’s mannequin with a teapot for a head offered a constant supply of fairy cakes, sandwiches and fruit from compartments in her hollow abdomen. Baker baked, sculpted and decorated each of these family members herself over the course of a month.’

 

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‘A dancing robot named “Nano Krispie Man” made of Rice Krispies Treats and robotic cucumber hands was made through an event hosted by a CMU computer scientist, Maya, a design consultancy and technology research lab, and Mattress Factory, a Pittsburgh contemporary-art museum, as part of the Community Open Studios component of Robot 250.’

 

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‘The personalized packaging of BITE ART cookies for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (MSU) highlights BITE ART products’ connection with edible art. Paper Cookie becomes a museum exhibit that questions the experience of consuming art.’

 

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Andrea Ferrero All My Life I’ve Been Afraid of Power (2023)
‘Made from white chocolate and cast in the shape of Greco-Roman ruins, Peruvian artist Andrea Ferrero’s sculptures invite viewers not only to look, but also to eat. This ingestion encourages an embodied experience of her work, one where audiences consume, digest, and excrete her sculptures. Ferrero hopes that this process provokes reflection on how we all swallow down notions of memory, politics, and power at the most basic, human level: through food.’

 

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Novel Allen Sugar Candy Glass (2023)

 

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Argentinian artist Eduardo Navarro’s latest series of drawings, inspired by quantum physics, is entirely edible. They are displayed under red heat lamps, like chicken eggs about to hatch. He’ll be cooking three nights during the exhibition, serving up three artworks each time. Each of the images illustrates the “holographic principle,” a concept in physics postulating that “information in the universe can only be scrambled but never destroyed”.

 

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September Split Edible Ephemera (Year of the Horse Snack) (2014)
Dry-salted horse meat, bitter rowan jelly (rowan berries, water, sugar), Norwegian birch, silkscreen print, CNC engraving, vacuum sealed storage bag, jar with lid, felt garment.

 

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Artist Dimitri Tsykalov produces raw meat representations of guns, some of which come with vegetable or fungi bullets.

 

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Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed and demonstrated a small, ingestible voltaic cell that is sustained by the acidic fluids in the stomach. The system can generate enough power to run small sensors or drug delivery devices that can reside in the gastrointestinal tract for extended periods of time.

 

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Using individually wrapped pieces of candy and fish-shaped soy sauce packets, an anonymous trio of artists known simply as three have constructed a number of works that invite viewers to interact with them. Their installation titled Tokyo Electric displays a 3 meter-tall box designed in the scale of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The structure deliberately includes 151,503 colorful fish-shaped soy sauce containers, which is the exact number of displaced citizens in the aftermath.

 

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ÉCAL student Erika Marthins has combined a series of different technologies with food to create an interactive dessert that moves, makes noise and refracts light. Aiming to offer interesting alternatives to the average sweet treat, Marthins used edible robotics, light-shaping technology, and digital data information in the making of the dish.

 

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Filioppo Ioco Untitled (2010)

 

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For Adrian Villar Rojas’ latest exhibition (‘Theater of Disappearance’) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, I created an array of experimental cake sculptures. In tandem with the natural rock formations surrounding the immersive installation, over 70 cakes were baked to create a conversation between both sedimentary forms and textures. The cakes represented a sense of nostalgia, hidden in a timeless landscape of collected, yet abandoned artifacts.

 

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Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio has created Stroke, which involves an entire room coated in chocolate which visitors are allowed to touch and taste. “The idea of a chocolate room is one thing and the reality of a chocolate room is very much something else,” says Gallaccio.

 

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Song Dong Eating the City (2019)
‘The purpose of my work is for the city I build to be destroyed. As cities in Asia grow, old buildings are knocked down and new ones built, almost every day. Some cities have even been built from scratch in 20 years. My city will be built of sweets and biscuits, making it tempting and delicious. When we are eating the city we are using our desire to taste it, but at the same time, we’re demolishing the city and turning it into a ruin.’

 

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Candy maker extraordinaire and owner of sweets shop Ameshin Shinri Tezuka continues to wow Tokyo with his amazing amezaiku animals. Amezaiku is an ancient art of candy crafting. Artists create skillfully sculpted sweets that depict impressively realistic animals, from expressive koi fish to seemingly slippery octopuses. While the art form has been around since the 8th century, very few practitioners remain today. At just 27 years old, Tezuka is the youngest known amezaiku artist.

 

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Artist Jennifer Rubell created a cell padded with edible cotton candy.

 

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Gameboy Mania & Jami Behrends Super Mario Cake (2014)

 

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Sarah Lucas’ ‘Nud Cycladic 14’ reimagined as a vegan lemon sponge cake.

 

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Natacha Lesueur Untitled (1995)

 

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It took 56 hours to complete, was made from 4,640 chocolate sticks and 10kg of Belgian chocolate, measures 120cm by 120cm and contains 143,840 calories – but this edible labyrinth will only take a few hours to eat. The maze is the brainchild of YouTube vlogger Doug Armstrong, from London, and food artist Prudence Staite, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, who created their chocolate warren in homage to the Maze Runner film.

 

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Was chosen to take part in an amazing art piece done by the artist Brandon McGill titled DUALITY. Was along with seven other young guys painted from head to toe very imaginatively with edible paint. This was followed by an art auction where invited guests bid on the artworks, meaning the edible painting not us. Those with the top bids could take us into private rooms and remove the artwork, which, yes, meant licking the painting off of our bodies. I was bought by a group of five men who had me back to a sticky version of my old self in what seemed like no time at all.

 

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Leandro Erlich You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too (2022)
‘On display during You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too will be one-to-one replicas of an ottoman and a daybed, from the famed Barcelona collection by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, made entirely of cake. The cakes are created to look identical to real furniture. The works will be on display in a gallery setting, before they are cut into and shared with audience members, revealing the true nature of the unassuming item.’

 

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A lumpy mound of a black rock-like substance dominated the space during He Xiangyu’s Cola Project. The substance was boiled down cola drink, a process developed by Xiangyu in 2008. With his team of factory workers, he “cooked” thousands of litres over a span of a year to create the crystal forms resembling coal. The work focuses on the materiality of Coca-Cola rather than the pervasiveness of the corporate identity of the product.

 

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The Real Cookbook from German design agency Korefe is a delicious creation made of 100% fresh pasta. Flip it open for some inspiration, and tear out the pages to use as sheets of lasagna. For both the seasoned chef and the novice cook, just bake the book and eat!

 

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Maurizio Savini is an Italian sculptor known for making art out of chewing gum.

 

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Bob Trotman Cake Lady (2002)

 

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1. Put 5 Peeps in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave on high for 30 seconds. 2. Using a spoon, stir in about 1 teaspoon neutral oil until the mixture is stringy and combined. 3. Slowly stir in confectioners’ sugar until you’ve reached your desired consistency (we used about ¼ to ⅓ cup sugar). 4. Transfer the slime to a work surface lightly dusted with more sugar. Cover your hands with sugar to prevent sticking. Knead gently until the slime is smooth.

 

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Highlights from the Texas State Fair 2011 Butter Sculpture Show

 

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Jasmine Rae Wedding Cakes (2017)

 

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A London-based patisserie is selling edible tampon, soaked in blood. Luxury macron brand, OhLaLa, are selling this one-of-a-kind ‘bloody’ delicacy for a good cause. The boutique bakers created the “world’s first Bloody Good tampon macarons to highlight a real issue for women around the world,” as stated on their website. They joined hands with Bloody Good Period (BGP), a charity organisation that aims to create a sustainable flow of sanitary protection for those who can’t afford to buy them. Thus, people who end up buying these gory tampon boxes will be contributing for the noble cause. Ten pounds from every box will be donated to “help the fight against period poverty that affects 1 in 10 women in the UK alone, with proceeds raised going toward buying period packs for asylum seekers, refugees and women with low income,” the website added. The artists made the tampon as real-looking as possible and even added a blue string, which the makers say is also edible and are made of raspberry.

 

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Xiaojing Yan Lingzhi Girl #18 (2021)
cultivated lingzhi mushrooms, mycelium, wood chips

 

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“The domestic landscape reflects our culture, our taste and our habits,” say the designers Lanzavecchia + Wai. “Ostensibly living intact through good times and also adverse ones, the domestic objects become invisible to us over time with their familiarity. How can furniture react to times of crisis? The decorative elements that were once appreciated, suddenly become superfluous and should evolve to reflect a new era of austerity; the objects become edible and offer themselves to be consumed when needed.”

 

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Plastic water bottles might soon be a thing of the past thanks to these edible water bubbles created by an innovative sustainable packaging start-up based in London, UK. The bubbles, called the Ooho!, are created by encasing a blob of drinking water within an edible membrane.

 

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Helen Chadwick Cacao (1994)
‘This installation is simply a pool of molten chocolate, with a fountain oozing chocolate in the center. It immediately makes me want to eat it. However, if viewed up close, and with a bit more thought, the image is repulsive. The chocolate has been flowing constantly for days, gathering dust and hair that have fallen from the audience’s bodies. The sheer quantity of chocolate also adds to this repulsion, as though it is too much of a good thing. You begin to imagine yourself attempting to eat all of this, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and actually quite sick.’

 

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Robin Antar Various (2014-2022)
‘Robin Antar sculpts stone into seemingly mundane, everyday objects, like condiment bottles and packages of Oreos. She aims to create a “virtual record” by creating permanent works of art.’

 

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Pope.L Claim (2017)
‘Pope.L’s installation smelled really bad. The reason for this was the 2,755 slices of bologna pinned to its walls, which, even on day one, already appeared a little nasty, their orange, oily juices pooling in small basins that run along the floor. As it turns out, however, the meat is “curing,” not rotting. The bologna will not be replaced. It will, for many viewers, likely continue to be pungent. Expect its smell to change somewhat—possibly for the better, possibly for the worse, depending on the viewer’s sense of smell.’

 

 

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As usual, it’s taking me a couple of days to luxuriate in PTv2, but it’s imminent. ** Misanthrope, Yeah, no, it’s in the 100s of Euros. Uh, yes, mixed bag on the weight loss. Jeez, that guy. He and adulthood do not seem like soup and sandwich so far. ** chris dankland, Hi, Chris! Yay! Happy you liked the Luther Price. Yeah, they’re pretty creepy. I don’t know if he himself was or not. Some say yes. I’m alright. Interesting about the more hands-on role with X-R-A-Y. Heavily noble effort. And that’s wild about the Mike Topp book! I’m excited for that, for sure. Aram Saroyan cover: wow, I can’t begin to picture that, nice. I’d obviously be more than happy to do a ‘welcome to the world’ post here for it, if you like. I’m so happy you’re back. 2024 has been almost entirely about finishing Zac Farley’s and my new film, which I’m very excited about. There’ve been tons of problems, but we’ve managed to escape them so far. And I have a new little book about to come out. It was fun to put that together. Things are okay, iow. Great day to you, pal. ** Harper, Hi. Yeah totally. That’s why my lists are always ‘favorites’ not ‘bests’. Favorites are a free zone. That’s my excuse, at least. How did the appointment go? It has warmed up here too, not to a misery point, and it’s still dry. Obviously, you can’t expect any normality from the sky these days, so I’m just hoping the summer will be schizo at the very least. Sunday: well, it’ll be good to get past the moving prelims and just have it done. But, yeah, packing. My week: hopefully get closer to getting through our current film problems, some meetings, a film or two, script work, friends … nothing too out of the ordinary. Let me know how it went today. ** Steve, I just read about the Sophie album. Promising sounding. Everyone, For Slant Magazine, Steve reviewed Loma’s new album HOW WILL I LIVE WITHOUT A BODY? aka right here. Curious about the album in progress. Me too: re: what I’ll think off ‘IStTVG’. 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I don’t think I have cool anecdotes about my lit zine other than recounting how extremely labor intensive it was: typing the texts into an old pre-computer giant typewriter-like machine, printing out the pages on this photographic paper, putting the paper in chemicals until what I typed was visible, hanging the papers on a clothesline to dry, cutting them into page size with scissors, glueing the pages into boards, assembling the boards, taking them to the printer, waiting weeks, carrying heavy boxes of the finished zine home. Stuff like that. Not so cool. No, I don’t think I know about ‘genie’. But it seems like I should since Arcadia is the city I grew up in. Huh. I’ll look into that. Thanks, pal. ** Uday, ‘Baradla Cave’ it is then. Are you going home for the summer? Is there tons to do before you leave? ** PL, Hi, PL! I’m okay. Film is in a big mess right now, but we’re doing our best to solve it. I would watch the previous two ‘Apes’ movies before the new one. I liked the new one, but the previous two are better. I know all those films you mentioned yes. ‘Last Summer’ was really good and strange, yes. I like Frank Perry’s films. And ‘Foxes’ was big fun, at least at the time. Cherie Currie! At the time, I was way into punk and hated all disco, but of course I came around, and I do like Donna Summer, or some of her. Chic is the one I really came around on. I think they’re total genius. I’m sure you’d get along with kids, I don’t know why, but I do. Yes, I see myself in your drawing! Thank you. And I look pretty evil to boot. Whoop! I do indeed like it big time. ** Oscar 🌀, I love when people are so stoned they say things like that. I’m going to write a novel about a world where whenever anyone says the word ‘hype’ their mouths and vocal cords get stuck on the ‘y’, and the only way they can stop saying ‘hyyyyy’ is to name their favorite hotdog, and of course they say ‘Oscar Mayer’, but all they really have to say is ‘Oscar’ to stop, but they don’t realise that. Automatic best seller, no? ‘Skinamarink’ was my favorite film of whatever year it came out. So, yes! I’m glad Mr. Sivan pleasured you. I think that must be his goal. Thank you about the heat. I so extremely appreciate that. Same with your wave, assuming you have one. I think everybody does. ** Okay. A bunch of art you can’t personally eat today. See you tomorrow.