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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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Smith learnt the ropes in magazine writing and cultural criticism working as a New Media Editor at Creative Camera Magazine, European Editor at Black Book (NY) and Arts Editor at Attitude. She left her freelance career to develop her live art practice and to teach at the University of Greenwich. She now runs the Writing subject area at the university.
Publications include: The Issues – an 8 page intervention: The Edge (2009); Drawing on Experience in The Moon, an Arts Council / Feminist Review publication for the Tate Modern show where she paid homage to Bobby Baker’s food paintings; Golden Rain, published by Museum of Contemporary Art, A project for Stavanger, European City of Culture, (2008); Wasafiri (Hide and Seek with Rebels: Tracing Contemporary Queer Art in Cracks & Rips) published by Routledge (2007).
Her fiction has featured in Tank magazine and Photoworks/ Cornerhouse Publications. She is on the Editorial Board of Brand Literary Magazine.