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Martian Meals
To celebrate the Design Museum’s forthcoming 'Moving to Mars' exhibition, join a Mars future food two-day drop-in session led by multi-disciplinary artists, Inês Neto dos Santos and Nora Silva.
Please note that this event is taking place on Exhibition Road.
What to expect
This demonstration is a speculative, futuristic lab set up, investigating the potential for fermentation on Mars. Half real, half fiction, this performed scenario explores the possibilities for human life on Mars, through an understanding of bacteria and their behaviour as a starting point for community.
On Earth, fermentation has existed spontaneously since the beginnings of life. Can it help us bring a sense of home to a seemingly hostile planet?
FERMEN-TOUR or How to Stop Burning your Onions , Inês Neto dos Santos, at A Toolkit for the Future, Arcade East and V&A, London 2018. Photo by Katie Davies.
Bonfim , Inês Neto dos Santos, Illustration School residency, Porto, 2018
FERMEN-TOUR or How to Stop Burning your Onions , Inês Neto dos Santos, at A Toolkit for the Future, Arcade East and V&A, London 2018. Photo by Katie Davies.
Urban Wilderness , Inês Neto dos Santos, Art Night Party, London, 2018. Photo by David Levene.
Facilitators
Inês Neto dos Santos
Inês Neto dos Santos is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London. Her practice uses food, people and spaces to question and understand our surroundings and propose new exchanges and discussions. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and her work has been exhibited internationally. ines-ns.com
Nora Silva
Nora Silva manufactures contexts and builds sculptural installations as a fiction from where to address political issues. She uses aesthetics as a prop for performances to happen within, often using gestures of irony, contradiction or frustration. Her practice is intimately linked to the social and utilises food very often as medium, material or process. norasilva.com
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Background image | Mother, mother, Inês Neto dos Santos (glasswork in collaboration with Gerald Mak), at Darlings of the Underground ©DATEAGLE ART 2019