Tuesday, 31 March 2009


About Mertle's MESS
The Mobile Eating Secret Station and Mertle are currently touring.
Next venue: Depot Untapped for Art Depot, London, MAY 2 & 3.
Details: 2-4pm, May 2 & 1-3pm, May 3.
Performance lecture: 7pm, May 3.
(http://www.artsdepot.co.uk/event_details.php?sectionid=theatre&eventid=337)

Eating Secret launched last year at Whitstable Biennale Satellite. I waited for secrets on eating at Starvation Point, a memorial where poverty-stricken sailors would wait for work. I collected over 100 from the public. The collection is growing.
If you would like to get involved, you can
1. Email me a secret on eating to: carolinesmith123@yahoo.co.uk
2. Deposit one here in the comment box
3. Have a tête à tête with me about your secret on eating at a variety of places around London this spring/summer. The first is Art Depot for Depot Untapped on May 2 and May 3. On the evening of May 3rd at 7pm I give a performance lecture on the secrets. Cupcakes galore! Free!

You confess your secret on eating. I offer you a cake. We both ingest.

Your secret will be added to the archive, but you, my interviewee, remain anonymous: our exchange fleeting, remembered in the shadows.

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

MESS launches 31 March and diary dates



The Mobile Eating Secret Station will launch March 31st.

Eating Secret London dates:

(split usually between collecting the secrets during a tête à tête and a performance lecture)
May

2 & 3
Art Depot for Depot Untapped festival. Have a tête à tête with Mertle 2-4pm, May 2 & 1-3pm, May 3. Performance lecture: 7pm, May 3.

22 & 24
The Roundhouse, Camden for the Accidental Festival organised by Central School of Speech and Drama.


June
27
Tate Modern, for Oriana Fox's stunning evening in association with Make Archive & Feminist Review. Mertle will collect secrets & re-enact a short piece from her favourite British performance artist. Details revealed later ...

July
6-8
Performing Lives symposium at Kingston University