Salon 37
Oreet Ashery
Will you Cook for me?
8th October 2004 @ 8pm
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Daniel Ashery has been cooking for his family and friends in Jerusalem for about 50 years. His cooking is inspired by his mother and combines traditional Eastern European Jewish food with Middle Eastern influences. Daniel visited home to cook a Friday meal for the participants. Daniel’s cooking is intuitive and only exists in the act of making, the process remains temporal. Oreet Ashery attempted to document and collate his cooking approach and recipes into a text and image form.

Oreet Ashery is an interdisciplinary artist who works across the fields of performance, video, installation and photography. She was born in Jerusalem 1966 but lives and works in London, having studied Fine Art at Central St Martins School of Art & Design, London, and Sheffield Hallam University. Ashery’s work is located in the slippage between art and life and is looking at cultural anxiety particularly in relation to popular culture.


The 1-2-1 live interaction 'Say Cheese' was performed by Ashery’s alter ego Marcus Fisher in 7 locations; Home, Liverpool Biennial, Arnolfini, Bristol, NYC, Ljubljana and Linz. And culminated in the interactive site: www.7actsoflove.org. commissioned by e-2.org and launched at the Great Eastern Hotel.

During 2003-4 the live installation Occupation I, II was performed at T1&2 Art Space, London, Time Based Arts, Hull and Galerija Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb.

Ashery’s most recent project Its Been a Long Time, based in a travel agent in Dublin includes video work and a letter written by a world expert on clematis flowers to her daughter who emigrated to the USA.


 
 
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