ANTI-APEC

Eating in Public's ANTI-APEC pages are up and running, with downloadable pamphlet and slogan templates. And we will be at 39hotel on Oct 13, 6:30 - 8 pm doing demonstration as a part of [OFF]HRS. Come!

Frass at Honolulu Museum of Art

FRASS
at Honolulu Museum of Art

The Academy is pleased to debut Frass, the latest project from photographer and conceptual artist Gaye Chan. Chan’s work ruminates on the ways in which cartography, photography, and printed matter simultaneously offer and occlude information. Frass originated in a rare and obscure source: an insect-damaged accordion book of 19^th-century Japanese woodblock illustrations. Intrigued by the complex pattern of wormholes that meandered through the book’s pages, Chan scanned the folios, enlarged them, and superimposed onto their lattice-like surfaces Google Map photographs of approximately 20 miles of the U.S./Mexico Border. The resulting installation is comprised of 10 large-scale digital prints—each a composite of more than 300 intricate screen captures—mounted in the manner of roll-up maps, aligned horizontally, and anchored by a rotating laser that traces the border’s location from one image to the next.
Frass suggests analogies between insect detritus and topography, larvae tracks and the roadways established for the transport of people and goods associated with the Mexican maquiladoras [export assembly plants]. In juxtaposing the vantage points of satellite and worm, authorized cargo and illicit traffic, Frass documents the border as it currently stands and speculates on the imbalance of power between this arbitrary boundary, the individuals who navigate it, and the body politic that transcends it. Scheduled to coincide with the 2011 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, taking place in Honolulu in November, Frass reflects on how economic alliances promote free trade, even as they rely on national borders to criminalize the movement of people.

exhibition documentation

Free Grindz on view in Honolulu

Free Grindz, created originally for an exhibition at Southern Exposure (Feb 2011), is on view as a part of the faculty exhibition at the University of Hawai'i from September 4 - 30, 2011.

Free Grindz is an edible weed information center / weed seed distribution station. Designed as a shipping crate and made (almost) entirely out of found material, it unfolds into the exhibition itself.

Flux Hawaii 'interviews' Eating in Public

Flux Hawaii 'interviews' Eating in Public.

in Honolulu Weekly

featured in "Take, Leave... Whatevas" by Richard Morse, Honolulu Weekly (June 29, 2011)

Share Seeds

Used the "Feeding the Future" forum as a trial run for upcoming 2012 seed-sharing stations. Packaged 6 types of seeds saved from our plants: luffa squash, pigeon pea, manoa lettuce, okra, green eggplant, and green onion.

Feeding the Future

Eating in Public will take part in
"Feeding the Future" - Sunday June 26 12-3 pm at Fresh Cafe

Nandita will be on panel "Calls to Action: What We Should Do" while Gaye sets up a seed-sharing station.

Sponsored by Yelp.com, Whole Foods, and The Hawaii Independent

Sunday, June 26, 12-3pm at Fresh Café - 831 Queen St., Kaka‘ako, Honolulu

The event will include three panels: 1) The challenges and opportunities facing local farms; 2) The next generation of local restauranteurs; 3) Calls to Action: What We Should Do.