FUEL is Mem Morrison’s response, through food, to the joys and complexities of being raised second generation Turkish Cypriot in London. Through a series of intimate domestic moments with his extended family, Mem came face to face with the cultural and social importance of traditional home cooking and uncovered some of the conflicts that arise from large-scale communal catering.

FUEL flirted awkwardly with passion and frustration, pleasure and the mundane.

The audience joined Mem and the ladies who taught them the ancient craft of cooking and stuffing vine leaves …..and of eating them!

Mem Morrison is a performance artist who has been making his own highly personal work since 1995. He is interested in exploring live art and performance as a healing process and as a way of finding a voice. With a strong emphasis on design and colour, his work often draws upon personal history and environment to evoke the complexities of acknowledging and accepting cultural difference.

Past projects include Kit (1996), a site specific live art event set in an old cotton mill in Manchester, Push (1997), an adapted version of his published writing Out, Showroom (1998) for which he won the Brian King Award, and the Time Out award winning Lilac (1999/2000). In 2000, Mem was commissioned by Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, Coventry and Bluecoat Arts, Liverpool to produce Triptych, a unique visual performance made exclusively for three cities. Other projects include Event (2001) at the Young Vic and BAC, London. He has recently been awarded a Festival of Firsts commission for the Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio to create Undo and is developing a large-scale performance piece Ringside for 2005.

Mem Morrison is an Artsadmin artist
www.artsadmin.co.uk/artists/mm