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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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Performance
Photo: JET for DIVA
Eating Secret (2008-)
“deliciously dark” (The Guardian)
“curiously cathartic” (The Times)
Secrets from three participants, London 2009
A participatory performance where Smith’s alter ego Mertle asks the public for their eating secrets in highly intimate one-to-ones. The secrets are delivered back to the audience along with actions such as baking or painting with food. Eating Secret was selected for the Tate Modern (one of 5 international feminists selected for ‘Feminism and the Archive’, 2009), Camden Arts Centre (appearing in Sally O’Reilly’s Big Art Rip Off for Fake Modern, 2010), Cochrane Theatre (for GFest, 2009) and most recently to launch IMAF (International Festival of Performance) at the Multimedial Art Gallery in Serbia, as part of the art residency programme in 2010. She was invited to participated on Food Glorious Food, an arts panel along with Bobby Baker and Oreet Ashery to discuss her projects on food, organised by Live Art Development Agency at the International Institute of Visual Arts, (IniVA February 2010).
Spank (2006-2008)
“haunting & hallucinatory” Richard Dyer
Rich Mix Studios, London, 2008. Photo: Alicja Dobrucka
Hidden histories revealed through Smith doubling live and on video. Selected for the National Review of Live Art (2008) where she was International Elevator Artist, launching the Festival at Tramway in Glasgow; for the International Symposium of Intimacy at Goldsmiths in 2007, where she performed at Albany Theatre; for the art collective OMSK at the Whipping Rooms in the East End; and Bad Grrls, Gadgets and Guerrilla Tactics for ‘re:Actor 2: International Conference of Digital Arts & Performance’ at Leeds University.