Shade is looking for people to join a unique art event: a project about shared food, culture and community - dressing for dinner and sharing recipes across cultures. Shade is a performance project about shared culture and food, using dress, decorated dinner tables, performance and food to create social events of arts, dinner and entertainment in specific sites. Shade has previously collaborated with writers, poets, artists, tailors, fashionistas and ecologists and has hosted tea parties, led tours, and is currently planning a series of intimate evening events to be hosted in private homes.
The Shade Home 2010 project will be launched at an opening dinner event held at St Nicholas Market Glass Arcade which is being held for traders and guests. This will be followed by four further dinner events in Shade host homes in North, South, East and West Bristol. Shade Home is seeking four private homes in which to host these events which will take place this Autumn. To find out more about the Shade Home project including registering to be a guest and hosting a Shade Home Dinner Event in your home visit the Shade Home stall which will be located next to the Nails on Corn Street at the Slow Food Market at St Nick’s Market on Sunday 6 June from 10am - 3pm and then again the following Wednesday 9 June from 9.30am - 2.30pm at the Farmer’s Market or contact jacky@jackypuzey.com for more information.
‘Shade Home’ uses garments, pattern, text, food and performance, in a concept devised and led by Bristol artist Jacky Puzey in collaboration with a host of artists and performers. Shade is an ongoing project about influence and exchange: beautifully tailored suits acting as passports, dressing to pass across border, style and identity. Shade suits bear their allegiances on their sleeves, rather than subtly hidden in social codes and exclusive invitations, and the wearers become a carnival cartel, exposing the deeply traditional codes inherent in the fabric of the suits as the wearers do business, their mob allegiances embroidered on their backs. Hosts, guests and collaborators are invited to pass, to style and dine with the House of Shade, creating new meetings of contemporary design, food traditions, and modern multicultural identities.
This project is funded by Bristol City Council’s Single Project Fund and an Arts Council England South West ‘Grants for the Arts’ award.
Photographer Chandra Prasad. Copyright Chandra Prasad and Shade 2009. Photo Shows: Taban Othman, Shade Home guest artist, dining with other Shade Home guests for You and Your Work 2009.
