at the kitchen table derives from an exhibition of the same name which brings together a selection of cookbooks, video works and artworks with an aim to examine how food writing and instruction is handled through various conventional formats, channels and platforms by which it continues to circulate as material, trace, memory and culture.
The selection of cookbooks feature recipes and narratives compiled from artists and art-spaces, anthologies of recipes from literary fiction, cookbooks that function as historical records and some that are self-published by individuals or community groups. The video works highlight and examine the well-worn format of the instructional cooking class. The artworks are presented via peripheral, referential, or stand-in documents that respond to the forms of the marketed consumable product, the stand-alone restaurant, the family archive, the recipe book, the menu, the assembly and the feast.
