The project shows an experiment, that explores a connection between nutrition after aesthetic criteria and the resulting digestion activity – facing again it’s aesthetic potential. Depending on the food and the body constitution, there arise different internal corporal tones and noises - the so called ”intestine perestaltic” – a direct succession of a previous ” taste-question”. From the medical point of view, a loud digestion stands for health, while contradictory in our cultural aereas any noises in connection of eating are absolutely out of place – eating and health are in opposition to the fashion.

Referring to this assumption, the experiment questions the possibility of a connection to the expression ”COLOUR-TONE” – the definition of a visual term by an acoustic one.

Retrospective to the history of art, the used colour substances were extractions also of the ingredients for the menu – artists and cooks quasi were taking the same material starting-point: PROVISIONS –depending on the context, they were chosen after taste-criteria, but at the employment of different senses.

With this conceptual starting-point another sense, the ear, shall be taken in and show up a potential coherency between (eatable) ”COLOUR-TONE” and it’s (corporal) ”TONE-SETTING” (digestion).

Concret there happens a 7-day self experiment of nutrition by the artificial criteria of colour-choice: each day only provisions of one colour group gets on the menu – ”WHITE, YELLOW, RED, GREEN, BROWN, VIOLET or BLACK FOOD” – and subsequent the immediate effect on the intestine perestaltic gets registered by a special microphone and recorded, to detect the acoustic ”COLOUR-TONES”.

The title ”CODING” further includes an ironical progression of the idea of the ”tableau” (painting), focused on the aspect of conclusion of art‘s and cook’s practice: the french term ”tableau” is also used in the context of dining-culture with certain dining-rules, that allows an association between the art of cooking and this menu after colours, amounting to an ”incorporation” of art and kitchen.

Realization:

The literally ”CODING” of each menu happens by transcription of the linguistic information (f.e. ”WHITE FOOD”) into a stroke-code, which afterwards gets transposed visually, but replacing frame, canvas and paint by B/W threads: according to the stroke-codes, they get woven into table-cloths with B/W stripe-patterns.

These seven ”COLOUR-LINES” are supposed to hang on walls like ”tableaus”. The sound of the digestion of the respective colour – the ”COLOUR-TONE” – comes by headsets with a video-installation, provided on seven dining-tables, where the concerning ”COLOUR-MEAL” is presented. See more images here.