Feminist Center for Creative Work | Food Installation + Performance | Summer 2025 | LA
inspired by our favorite childhood movie, spielberg’s “hook”… this performance for LA’s feminist center for creative work’s 10th birthday party invited guests to play with their food
“bangarang!” shouts peter pan and the camera pans to a group of wild eyed and smiling kids, sitting around a table overflowing with steaming roasts, towers of glistening fruit and vegetables, endless swirls of multicolored mixtures topped with contrasting dollops. moments later, a food fight breaks out and the excited faces are rainbow-splatter-painted like lush pollock’s…
we oooey-ify “bangarang” by meditating on the image of food play: creating an art installation of foraged and market-gathered pickled and fresh seasonal flora, accentuated with our signature tri-colored dips, and a plethora of confit dried fruit, crunchy root vegetables, crispy dehydrated pickles, chewy rice paper plates, seeds and homemade spices. minh phan invited us to position our work in honor of allison knowles’ “make a salad” of the fluxus movement. in proper knowles’ tradition, we invited guests to collaborate with us in making the installation…and then, of course, in eating it.
“bangarang!” shouts peter pan and the camera pans to a group of wild eyed and smiling kids, sitting around a table overflowing with steaming roasts, towers of glistening fruit and vegetables, endless swirls of multicolored mixtures topped with contrasting dollops. moments later, a food fight breaks out and the excited faces are rainbow-splatter-painted like lush pollock’s…
we oooey-ify “bangarang” by meditating on the image of food play: creating an art installation of foraged and market-gathered pickled and fresh seasonal flora, accentuated with our signature tri-colored dips, and a plethora of confit dried fruit, crunchy root vegetables, crispy dehydrated pickles, chewy rice paper plates, seeds and homemade spices. minh phan invited us to position our work in honor of allison knowles’ “make a salad” of the fluxus movement. in proper knowles’ tradition, we invited guests to collaborate with us in making the installation…and then, of course, in eating it.
working with minh was an extra special treat because prior to the genesis of oooey studios, chloe moved to los angeles to work with minh at her restaurant PHENAKITE. as their palates merged and the menu evolved, the two quickly became inseparable. it was through foraging and creating with minh in her role as chef de cuisine, that chloe fell in love with LA. when eliza moved here in early 2023 from her roles of cheffing, baking, and food-styling in berlin, she quickly fell head over heels with southern california too.
“bangarang” is an expression of this relishing.
