Collaboration with Dina Roussou
For Surrounding Education by de Appel arts centre and TAAK
Potatoes in various claysFrom the press release of de Appel arts centre:
The lunch event for the conference will be organized by Masha Ru, an artist and scientist based in Amsterdam, who researches the phenomenon of eating earth-based substances. Masha has introduced the school children to the fundamentals of her artistic research along with the concept of Geophagy and its contradictions. Geophagy is the practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates.
Developed in close collaboration with artist and cook Dina Roussou and the pupils, the lunch will allow the participants of the symposium to taste the qualities of and the differences between 'conventional' food and food with a little bit of clay. The menu for the lunch will include the following dishes: Self-made bread, Gazpacho, Chicken salad, Potatoes in baked clay, Cheese soufflé, Spinach pie and Chocolate cake.
Eggs in various claysFor more information:
‘A conversation with Masha Ru & Dina Roussou’, Very Local, by Hee-Seung Choi, 14-04-2016 (English)
‘The Result Wasn’t Important. An interview with Masha Ru, by Katia Krupennikova’, within On Boycott, Censorship and Educational Practices by Renata Cervetto, p. 127-130, published by de Appel arts centre, 2015, The Netherlands, ISBN 978-90-73501-82-9 (English)
Chicken in red clay
