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Ingesting the world in bits keeps us alive, keeps us part of the loop, the weird spiral: host, guest, predator, prey, farmer, farmed. Eating and Drinking is a three-day experiment in participatory learning. Through daily presentations and collective questions, participants are invited to playfully hypothesize by way of taste, conviviality, and consumption on the topic of appetite.
Drawing on the history and obligations of hospitality as research and poetic methodology (The Still Life, Clarice Lispector, the Manifesto Antropofago, Gordon Matta Clark, Daniel Spoerri, Agnes Varda, amongst others) we serve, taste, digest, and wash up together. The menu is the protocol for group study and the table is the lab.
Halpert/Höflich is the collaborative practice of H.A. Halpert and Ruth Höflich. Their work together is grounded in poiesis–searching for new forms through dialogue, cross-disciplinary exchange, and friendship.
Recent projects include Eating and Drinking, an ongoing experiment in feasting and participatory learning, with an event at TCB, Inc. Melbourne in March 2022; A Dark Line Appears On The Horizon, a dialogue and series of maps describing the weather from inside the body to the water cycles that connect us physically, most recently performed at Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn and Maracuya Art, Tijuana, prepandemic; and The Back of Her Head Opens Into a Spout, a study of the vessel and of receptivity in the form of an artists ’book and a series of exhibitions, most recently in 2021 at CooCoo Barn in Hudson, New York. They met at the Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts at Bard College in New York and have been working collaboratively since 2018.
H.A. Halpert was born in Canada and lives in New York City. She uses sculpture, drawing and animation in essay-style installations. Her work has been exhibited in New York, including at AIR Gallery, Lubov Gallery, MoMA PS1, Miller Contemporary, Derek Eller Gallery, and Bronx Art Space. Her writing and translations have most recently appeared in Form IV, Art News Lithuania, and (forthcoming) in the Taiwan Craft Research Institute.
Ruth Höflich was born in Munich and currently lives in Melbourne. Her work spans moving image, photography and installation and has been screened and exhibited internationally, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Images Festival, She Makes Noise at Casa Encendida, Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Kunstverein München, ICA London and Liquid Architecture, Melbourne. She is currently a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne.