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To Serve You

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Thalia Hoffman
La Cocina, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Exhibiting Venue: Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands
March 18, 2022
Exhibition Grant

Thalia Hoffman, in collaboration with Michal Samama, create an iteration of Hoffmann’s performance To Serve You, a six-hour dinner for 15–20 guests. The performance explores the connection between food, rules, law, nationality, and security through the power relations between the guest and host, feeder and eater. In an artist talk, Hoffmann discusses themes and questions that are at the core of the performance, including elements of free will and control, agency and submission. This performance of  To Serve You is organized by the artist-run initiative La Cocina and presented at Framer Framed. It was initially intended to be featured in A Matter of (In)digestions, a festival exploring socio-political, historical, and cultural intersections implied by the idea of consumption, but was postponed, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thalia Hoffman and Michal Samama, To Serve You, still from video documentation.

Thalia Hoffman, A Scent Collection, performance and installation.

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