Feeding Each Other For One Day
Layet Johnson and Lindsey Reynolds (2009)
Go out to eat with someone. Feed them, not yourself. Decide how much they get to eat, the speed at which they eat, how big of bites they must take. Make eating the conversation itself. The relationship of your own hands to your own consumption is severed. Your sustenance is their responsibility. By noticing their reaction you become aware of how you eat. You must eat. They must eat. Eating is a personal activity. Meals are for groups. Do you want to come across as a healthy eater or a ravenous animal or somewhere between? Feeding others food comes more natural than pouring a drink down their mouth. If you participate in this activity in public, more people will be aware of your eating.
Layet’s thoughts on collaborating: If Artist A and Artist B collaborate, the effects of their collaborations may or may not be apparent. In this way, their collaboration can be called “A,B” or “A+B=C” or “A+B=D+E.” The artists can either stay the same, become one, or create two new products. What is similar in each scenario is the necessity of each artist, with the necessity of the artists in the first scenario being referred to as “good company,” their product not changing but their relationship having evolved. For this reason, one could say that necessity is the reason for collaboration and without real need a collaboration will inevitably fail.
