As every year, Jennifer Rubell conceived a breakfast installation for Art Basel Miami Beach week. It’s Jennifer Rubell’s 11th installation at the Rubell Family Collection. Titled Incubation, the installation consists of two parts: an incubation gallery where yogurt is being made; and an observation gallery where the yogurt is anointed with honey and then consumed. As you can see in this video some skill was needed to catch the honey that was dripping from a container above the heads of the guests…

Jennifer Rubell: Incubation. Interactive Food Installation at Rubell Family Collection. Miami, November 30, 2011.

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Just Right is Jennifer Rubell’s food art project for this year’s Art Basel. The interactive food installation is located in a derelict house just behind the Rubell Family Collection. To access it, the visitors have to slip through a hole broken into the back wall of the Collection’s courtyard. Inside the abandoned-looking house, hundreds of bowls, spoons, napkins, and dozens of crockpots containing porridge wait for the guests. Why is the title of the installation “Just Right”? Because there are no options: the size of the bowl, the shape of the spoon, the temperature of the porridge, are all specifically chosen, they are just right.

See also VernissageTV’s interview with Jennifer Rubell and previous food installations at the Rubell Family Collection.

Jennifer Rubell: Just Right (2010). Opening, December 1, 2010. Rubell Family Collection, Miami / USA.

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Jennifer Rubell is know for her large-scale food projects that are a hybrid of performance art, installation art, and happenings. On March 22, 2010, Jennifer Rubell, will present Icons, an interactive food journey through the Brooklyn Museum. In the second part of the interview with Jennifer Rubell, the artist talks about the fascination of food and future projects.

Jennifer Rubell received a B.A. from Harvard University in Fine Arts, and subsequently attended the Culinary Institute of America. With her brother, Jason, and her parents, Don and Mera, she created a series of hotels in Miami, including the Albion and Greenview in South Beach and Beach House Bal Harbour. She also wrote a column for five years about cooking and entertaining for the Miami Herald House & Home magazine, followed by another column for five years in Domino magazine. Her writings have appeared in Vogue, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Travel + Leisure, Food + Wine, Ocean Drive, and Bon Appetit, among others. She is the author of Real Life Entertaining (HarperCollins), a blueprint for a radically simplified way of cooking, entertaining and hosting at home. Rubell lives in New York.

Interview with Jennifer Rubell at Independent, New York. March 6, 2010.

PS: See also the panel discussion “On Gluttony” at Independent that VernissageTV has documented.

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• On Gluttony. Panel Discussion at Independent, New York

On the occasion of the Armory Show week in March and a panel discussion at Independent art fair VernissageTV met with New York based artist Jennifer Rubell to talk about her large-scale food projects, which are a hybrid of performance art, installation art, and happenings.

For many people, one of the highlights during Art Basel Miami Beach week is the breakfast at the Rubell Family Collection. Each year, since 2001, Jennifer Rubell creates a food installation for that event in the courtyard of the Rubell Family Collection in Miami. Last year, Jennifer Rubell’s project titled “Old-Fashioned” consisted of 1’521 doughnuts hanging on a free-standing wall; in 2008, a mountain of bananas and a large field of different cereals were waiting to be eaten away (American Morning); and in 2007 she presented Drive Thru, featuring 2’000 hard-boiled eggs with a pile of latex gloves nearby to pick them up. Other projects include Creation, for the New York performance-art festival Performa 09; and Reconciliation, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. On March 22, Jennifer Rubell, will present Icons, an interactive food journey through the Brooklyn Museum including drinking paintings, suspended melting cheese heads, and more.

In the first part of the interview, Jennifer Rubell talks about when and how she started with her installations and the creation process of her works. In the second part that will be published tomorrow, she talks about the fascination of food and future projects.

Interview with Jennifer Rubell at Independent, New York. March 6, 2010.

PS: See also the panel discussion “On Gluttony” at Independent that VernissageTV has documented. Click here.

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• Interview with Jennifer Rubell / Part 2/2
• On Gluttony. Panel Discussion at Independent, New York

“French society, and especially Parisian, is gluttonous,” Claude Lévi-Strauss has famously said, “Every five years or so, it needs to stuff something new in its mouth.”

The same goes for the contemporary artworld: It is about new things to satisfy age-old desires. Is gluttony in art consumption contagious? The panel discussion at the art fair Independent in New York seeks to answer provocative questions on the pleasures and sins associated with art and food, as well as on the artworld’s gluttonous appetite for novelty.

This is an excerpt of the discussion at Independent New York, presented by Kreemart Salon, on March 6, 2010. Moderated by Jovana Stokic, art historian. Introduction by Elizabeth Dee, gallery owner and co founder of Independent. Participants: Raphael Castoriano, art advisor; Will Cotton, artist; Anthony Haden Guest, journalist and writer; Rachel Lehmann, gallery owner; Jennifer Rubell, food artist; Linda Yablonsky, journalist and writer. The complete conversation is available as 720p HD file on USB Flash Drive. Send an e-mail to Karolina at contact at vernissage.tv if you are interested.

On Gluttony. Panel discussion at Independent, New York, March 6, 2010.

PS: Review by Nicole Caruth at Art21 Blog.

PPS: Coming soon: Interview with Jennifer Rubell.

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