Live performance by Racquel Rowe and Maddie Lychek
In-person program at Union Gallery
October 19, 2023 at 6pm
More Cake! explores the relationship between viewer and audience, or guest and host, when confronted with the nature of hospitality in various settings. In the gallery armed with flour, eggs, and perseverance, the process of cake creation evolves into a choreography. Mixing, pouring, and decorating are the crux of the performance. The audience/collaborators will be invited to both witness, help, and enjoy cakes throughout the performance. This will be an immersive experience blurring the lines between artist, audience, and cake, as everyone and thing becomes part of the performance.
Part of Maddie Lychek and Racquel Rowe’s exhibition, At The Buffet. Born out of early undergraduate art classes and late nights at pizza pizza, the duo place an emphasis when collaborating on food, fun and experimentation. With a shared interest of food as a medium within performance art, the two experiment frequently with taste, touch and texture. This all you can eat exhibition highlights key moments in their collaborative journey thus far and focuses on the materiality of food by emphasizing colour and form.
Racquel Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist from the island of Barbados currently residing in Canada. She’s exhibited across Canada and holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo and a BA(Hons) in History and Studio Art from the University of Guelph. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships during her MFA degree and most recently receiving grants from Ontario Arts Council as well as Canada Council of the Arts. Her current traveling exhibition The Chicken Is Just Dead First is showing in Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.
Maddie Lychek is an artist and artists facilitator based in so-called Guelph, Canada. Lychek’s multidisciplinary practice involves performance, video, curatorial projects and various digital mediums. She explores the use of digital platforms as a mode of creation and performance in and of themselves. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts, in Studio Art with Distinction, from the University of Guelph and is currently the Program Director at Ed Video Media Arts Centre. Maddie Lychek (b. 1997) has presented in venues across Canada and Bremen, Germany. Her work was recently exhibited at Xpace Cultural Centre, InterAccess, Galerie Sans Nom and Struts Gallery.
Union Gallery thanks the Provost's Advisory Committee on the Promotion of the Arts at Queen's University for supporting At the Buffet and affiliated programming through the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund. The artists would like to thank Ed Video Media Arts Centre for their generous support of our practices, as well as the University of Guelph Undergraduate Studio Art Program where our friendship and much of this work was birthed.
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