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- Mertle’s Menus
October 24, 2011 | 9:17 pm
Mertle launched Mertle’s Menus at Truman’s Brewery for The Experimental Food Society 21-22nd October. There were two slices of Mertle’s food-themed game show and new project Eating Portraits, where participants performed eating in front of Mertle and her camera. A response to the cultural taboo of eating in front of the camera or being Read more ... - Eating Portraits
October 22, 2011 | 8:34 amHere’s Mertle’s new Eating Portraits project, part of Mertle’s Menus at the Experimental Food Society. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mertle/sets/72157627809004873/ To join the project come to Truman’s Brewery, London E1, TODAY between 11am-6pm! Game show is at 1.30pm.
- Lock Up Your Kitchens: Mertle Returns With Mertle’s Menus…
October 2, 2011 | 11:04 am
Mertle’s Mobile Eating Secret Station moves to this year’s Spectacular for the Experimental Food Society at Truman’s Brewery, in London’s East End. 21/ 22nd October. Featuring: MERTLE’S MENUS – MAIN SHOW - Mertle launches her food game show with special guests and audience participation. MERTLE’S MENUS – SIDE SHOW Meet a stranger. Devise a Menu. Read more ... -
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About
“Curiously Cathartic” The Times.
“Deliciously Dark” The Guardian.
Caroline Smith is a performance artist and writer whose works explore alter ego and identity and are often dark, comical and slightly sinister. Her projects are site responsive and have spanned an East End sewing and corset-making studio to the Thames shore; from 30th floor law offices in the Docklands to a steamy Brick Lane kitchen.
Her themes explore complicity and exchange and the disturbances that arise between self and other. She often works under the guise of Mertle Merman, or the elusive ‘Q’ or M. Abrakadabrovic. Activities such as eating, looking and confessing are reframed into ritualistic, theatrical one-to-ones that offer the opportunity to transgress.
She has performed at many of the UK’s leading venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Tate Modern, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery and Tramway Theatre for the National Review of Live Art.