Attitudes towards food and eating are mirrored in every relationship you have. If you are tense with the intimate act of eating, you’re tense with other intimate acts. Social etiquettes often create a distance between food and us instead of enhancing our pleasures from food. In this pleasureshop, we will expand these etiquettes.
In Sensuous Eating I invite you to set an opulent table with foods and dishes that you love and relish in the joy of eating together. Together we will delve into the pleasure of food, enjoy the taste, texture and smell of the delicacies placed before us and explore table manners and eating rituals as an artistic intervention.
Anna Natt’s multimedia work explores the intersection of dance, performance and visual arts and has been shown internationally in theaters as well as galleries and alternative spaces. She was trained in traditional flamenco dance in Seville, Spain from 2000-2005 before moving to Berlin, where she is currently based. Although originally trained as a flamenco dancer, she draws inspiration from various somatic and contemporary practices, seeking to define and explore the aspects that characterize the flamenco body and the qualities of this movement in order to abstract them, simultaneously abstracting her own body. Using this method, she attempts to cultivate a deeper understanding of the body and its nuances. A connection to trance and dream states is also a central theme in her work. She was raised a charismatic Christian, a branch of evangelical Christianity that uses techniques such as speaking in tongues and receiving visions. Early contact to such mystical practices led her to experiment with several techniques that have brought me to the same states through secular channels such as Vipassana and Osho Dynamic Meditation, Holotropic breathing and experimental body work. This type of work has culled an interest in metamorphosis and transformation, communication with an audience on a visceral level and the dialectics of intimacy and how this hidden undercurrent manifests itself in everyday life. These experiences have been a source of inspiration for her artistic work.
