“Fatt/Fatt”
"Fatt/Fatt" is a kitchen performance based on the Fattūsh, a Levantine salad made from an assortment of greens and vegetables mixed with pieces of pita bread. It draws inspiration from breaking bread and takes root in the contrast entity/fragment. A duality reflected on Greek word "Pita" that stands for solid, resistant, and Arabic derived word "Fatt" that means "concasse" (crushed). The shared, communal Fattush is served as a mezze in a clay receptacle and is one third of bread and two-third of greens, a ratio that will be driving the whole performance.
Fatt --- is a word derived from Arabic and means "concasse" or crushed.
ūsh --- is a suffix of Turkish origins.
It's made of ⅓ of a grilled pita bread and ⅔ of greens & vegetables (lettuce, purslane, parsley, mint, tomato, cucumber, radish, pepper bell, onion, garlic). Sauce is an assortiment of olive oil, lemon juice, pomegranate molasses and sumac.
Preparation mode:
1. Heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Put the pita loaf in the oven for 5 to 10 minutes until it becomes crispy. Take it out and break the bread in small pieces.
3. In a big salad bowl, cut the lettuce, the tomato, the cucumber, the radish, the onion and the other greens.
4. Prepare the seasoning in another bowl. Pour on the salad.
5. Add the bread and mix before serving.
Design & Execution: Miriane Zgheib
Curator: Hadi E. Damien
Venue: Bethlehem Chapel Gallery
Date & Time: Friday 26 June 2015, at 2.30 pm
Photography: Ad Achkar
The Makers Exhibition is an experimental live event where artists prepare and perform food inspired by (coming from) theatre performances in a workshop kitchen with a nostalgic machinery food chain environment, located in an art gallery. The kitchen is therefore seen as a theatre in which the act of preparing, cooking and sharing food becomes a private performance for invited guests. The Makers exhibit the act of making. Makers design their theatrical food and dining experience in front of an audience in order to explore not only the design of food itself, but also the way it is prepared, presented, shared and played out. The visitors see how the Makers draw, think, work and develop ideas, and what the process of creating a new work looks like. The process is paramount; the preparation and development is as important as the making of the food. Makers will put their theatre design and food design together at the same table and use food as their theatrical material. It is a platform to examine the intersection between the worlds of theatre, drama and food design.