Featured Performer 1997
E E Eat
Jamie Oh and
Susumu Yonaguni
Two artists and professional chefs from New York, Jamie Oh and Susumu Yonaguni, bring their delicious performance to a storefront in the Colonial Arcade on Thursday May 1. Entitled America, Oh dresses as a candy-covered Statue of Liberty, and she and Yonaguni build an American flag out of chocolate kisses and other confections which the audience is invited to eat. Oh and Yonaguni explore the myth of the "American Dream" in Asia, where they, as children, imagined America to be as sweet and sugar-coated as candy. They use food in their performance work as a display of cultural identity and to encourage audience participation.