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Eating Portraits
Here’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.
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Lock Up Your Kitchens: Mertle Returns With Mertle’s Menus…
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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I Looked You In The Eye at the Royal Festival Hall, Vogue Fabrics and Clifford Chance
The interesting thing about the performance is the emphasis on making silence through looking. There’s so much ‘doing’ between two in all that stillness and expansiveness. Q was not me, as the participants who were my friends pointed out, but there was a strange and compelling familiarity to those that I knew, and actually to Read more ...
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Mertle’s We Need to Talk About Eating Workshop
Mertle will be running a one-off workshop: We Need To Talk About Eating for participants on 8th July 9.30am-12.30pm, at the Edinburgh Rooms, University of Greenwich, London SE10. To register your interest in participating, please hit the Contact me button. This workshop is the result of Dr Paola Tubaro’s and my funded research project exploring Read more ...
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I Look You In The Eye at Clifford Chance, London
I Look You In The Eye A series of one-to-one’s lasting one hour in a private alcove of the 30th floor. Against the backdrop of an urban sky rise overlooking the docklands, Q invites strangers to sit with her for 5-10 minutes in silence and reflection. A private exchange of the gaze is gently held Read more ...
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Agents on The Thames
Participants were recruited as Mertle’s Special Agents for 10 minute one to ones a couple of weeks ago. Responding to a conference on Narrative at the University of Greenwich, each Agent was whisked off to the shore where Mert and the stranger bonded over findings such as a mobile phone, sheep teeth, ox jaw or Read more ...
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Solo Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad
Mertle has been commissioned to produce new work for a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad in June 2011.
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Mertle’s Bedtime Eating Secret at The Brickhouse
25th September 2010, Mertle’s Bedtime Eating Secret at The Brickhouse, London E1. The inaugural Experimental Food Society event will see Mertle collecting secrets during the day and turning them into something hot by night. This time, she’s receiving professional help!
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Intimate Exchange: Relationships with Food
10th-12th September 2010, Intimate Exchange: Relationships with Food for 20th & 21stC Writings on Intimacy conference at Loughborough University
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