Food bin

The performance features a 10 minute recording of the artist talking about the state of the food bin in her current house share. She sits on a chair drinking tea while the recording plays, eventually pouring tea over herself and smearing sour cream and chive dip over her arms.

Can be viewed via video or sweeping overview

Food bin was part of an all female group exhibition: Burn The Witch. Featuring artists: Zeena Altai, Katie Grenville, Sarah Nahas, Mary-Ann Stuart, Toraigh Watson, Llinos Owen and Jasmine Aldridge.

Sweeping overview:

October 2019

Performance not for camera, Safehouse 1, 139 Copeland Road, Peckham, London, UK

Performer: Rachel Lonsdale

13 mins 12 seconds

i found four teabags in the sink last week. i'm sure they have been put here by a man. they will be moved in time though right

wrong

i watch one of them open the fridge door, hold up the milk to the light. it looks like a fab lolly. theres a clear line divide between white and yellow. i'm sure he'll put it in the bin yes

no

different man has smashed a glass cup. he has swept the pieces of broken glass into a pile next to the bin

i'm looking at a neatly swept pile of glass next to the bin

different man

he has put a plastic pasta pot in the food bin today. i pull it out. i ask why is there a plastic pasta pot in the food bin. he says the pot had a bit of food on it so it goes in the food bin right

right

BURN THE WITCH

01/10/19- 02/10/19

Artists involved:

Zeena Altai

Jasmine Aldridge

Katie Grenville

Rachel Lonsdale

Sarah Nahas

Llinos Owen

Toraigh Watson

Mary Ann Stuart