Leek, Potato, and Tarragon Soup &
Asparagus Soup with Parmesan Custards

Interview with Miranda Pearce

Interview with Martin Schmaltz

Performance Photos


"making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand." Deleuze and Guattari, The Anti-Oedipus

What does this have to do with soup? Maybe nothing, maybe everything-- but my Death of Painting class, guests of our performance today, has spent the last number of weeks deconstructing portions of The Anti-Oedipus and relating it back to our art practices. This material is dense, but fascinating. Deleuze and Guattari discuss desire specifically as a creative force rather than a lack which compels us to consume.

Today my desire was to make two kinds of delicious soup, asparagus and potato leek, and to share it with my classmates. Cooking to me is definitely a creative act, and an art form. Just like painting, sculpture or cinema, soup has compositional elements such as color, form, texture, and in addition, taste. And striking an aesthetic balance of these "ingredients" requires some mastery of process and materials. Anyway, we had a pleasant and relaxed afternoon. I heard stories of Grandmother’s stuffed tomatoes, and Hungarian goulash made as a last meal for a dying man, who relinquished life before he was able to enjoy it. Sincere thanks to Ron Rizzi for your support of our work, for listening to Halsey’s music with great care and attention, and for re-locating our class session to the gallery so we could enjoy the art of soup, and the company of one another. Did my potato leek soup rival the Mona Lisa? I suppose it all depends on what you hunger for. Too bad Leonardo wasn’t around to lend his opinion.