Feast of the Red Herring

Over a dozen artists have been invited to create and imagine every aspect of the dinner setting itself: the table, plates, cutlery, pots, placemats, cups, menu, flowers, masks, food, attire, toasts, sounds, and smells. After-the-fact, the secret dinner will be opened to the public; along with all the pieces made by invited artists and the detritus from the event itself.

On Friday the 24th of March a public symposium will be held, where the dinner guests will be invited back to be asked questions and open up a discussion around the topics that may or may not have come up during the dinner.

Where does the line between public and private lay within state, public and art apparatuses?: Secrecy and transparency as social games

Following the symposium there will be two workshops happening on Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th that will be sign-up only for 14 participants to re-play and re-imagine the secret dinner through roleplay and with the use of Nordic LARP techniques.

The project Feast of the Red Herring is part of a culmination of practice and theory based research that forms Francis Patrick Brady’s final contribution to the Critical and Pedagogical Studies MFA program at Malmö Art Academy, KHM.

Bio: Francis Patrick Brady is an artist and pedagogue based in Malmö whose work creates artistic games as enigmatic compositions that utilise storytelling and worldbuilding. These games reject participation as a simple immersive technique and instead play in between the aesthetic possibilities of agency and collaboration.