Event facilitation & publication design;
“Dinner of gestures”
Experimental publication formatsConcept depelopment
Participatory event design
Dinner of Gestures—a performative dinner designed as a one-night publication. I invited guests to gather around a table, where each person received only a fragment of a text. To read the full story, everyone had to share. Everyone was served only a fragment of the text. In order to read the whole story, we had to share the parts we received. Everyone received a hint prompting them to share their fragment of the story in a publication that requires small interaction. Some where asked to be whispered, read by two people or passed through a handshake. By reading in this way, we uncovered the whole story.
What if...
a publication was passed on through a handshake? Or was so wide that it would take two people to lift and open it? What if it disappeared after being read? Or only made sense when shared with others? What if it was worn and borrowed, but never owned? What if it had to be whispered to someone else, or had to be listened to rather than read? Can small gestures carry that little seed of connection within them?The dinner explored how reading can become a shared act, moment of connection, where meaning emerges not in isolation, but through interaction, proximity,
and care.
and care.