HOTPOT Publication Available NOW!

The HOTPOT publication is available from St Andrews Museum and FCA&C office NOW! With a special exhibition price - only £3!

http://shop.fcac.co.uk/product.asp?P_ID=170

It is a Set of 7 A5 artists' recipe cards - with all the artists and curator's favourite winter dishes and their information etc.; doublesided full colour; presented in quality translucent envelope!

Exhibition Installation Shots! - By Chris Park

Anyone noticed we changed the Title Image? That's a picture that Chris took of our logo in the gallery!


Alex Frost
Adult (Slimatee) sculpture (2007) centre, surrounded by Left to Right Blind Drawing (Hearts 2, 4 & 3) - all 2009
Courtesy the artist & Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Photo Chris Park


Ruth Archibald-Swaans
Play Please! (edible chess and dominoes for playing with), 2010
Untitled (hanging latex wall piece), 2009
Photo Chris Park


Gayle Chong Kwan
Manipulated Memory Tasting Booth, 2006
Listen to food related memories in her special booth
Photo Chris Park

Alex Wilde
A Fertile Ground, 2010
Installation/project involving soup + discussion over 4 Sundays duriing the exhibition
Photo Chris Park



Rebecca Wilson
Only the Best: Tarts and Floozies, 2009
Porcelain 'tart ladies'!
Photo Chris Park

FCA&C Finally Social Networked!!!

After lots of effort we are finally social networked!

FCA&C blog: http://blog.fcac.co.uk/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/fifecontemp
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tonia.lu?ref=profile#/pages/Fife-Contemporary-Art-Craft/253053157223?ref=mf
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/fifecontemporary

And the new version of the website with all the feeds on our front page and new shop front will be on-line soon as well!

New Event on 20th Feb!

Artist Gayle Chong Kwan's Tasting & Recording session for her work ' 'Manipulated Memory Tasting Booth' has been moved to 20th Feburary 1pm. Drop-in and taste our spring rolls!

Spring rolls will still be served at the opening when you listen to other people's memories in the booth. Also Alex Wilde will be serving veggie soup in exchange of your idea!

For full events programme please check: http://hotpotart.blogspot.com/2009/12/events-programme.html

Gayle Interviewed by BBC Radio 4!

Gayle Chong Kwan, Manipulated Memory Tasting Booth, 2006, photo copyright Gayle Chong Kwan

Artist Gayle Chong Kwan was interviwed by Radio 4 Food Programme - as part of the discussion in the Food & Art.

Click here for more details!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p7hfv

The audio file will be available soon.

A Preview of 'Play Please!'

Ruth just posted a few images of the 'Play Please!' photos - part of the installation on her blog!

Have a look -> http://rutharchibaldswaans.blogspot.com/2010/01/hotpot-exhibition-opens-in-st-andrews.html

Photos were taken by Ewan Bacell on the 16th of December in a Student Bar - Whey Pat in St Andrews... That's us playing the games with the Go Club of St Andrews University!

Who are Fife Contemporary Art & Craft?

Founded in 1977, Crawford Arts Centre was a major art venue in Fife area until it was reformed to the new agency - Fife Contemporary Art & Craft (FCA&C) in 2006. Funded by Scottish Arts Council and Fife Council, the new agency with charitable status curates and delivers exhibitions and projects across Fife with a wide range of partners including the Fife Museums. FCA&C aims to present the highest quality of contemporary visual art and craft activities to the widest possible public across Fife, with a significance extending to the rest of Scotland, to the UK and EC. FCA&C is also providing new means of supporting the development and networking of artists and makers based in Fife.

The exhibition HOTPOT [art, food & people] is curated by Fife Contemporary Art & Craft in collaboration with Scottish Arts Council funded Trainee Curator Tonia Lu. The Venue - St Andrews Museum's Kinburn Gallery - is one of the key exhibition venue partners of Fife Contemporary Art & Craft in which FCA&C usually organises 2 exhibitions each year.

For more information about FCA&C, please visit: http://www.fcac.co.uk/

Food and Our Emotions

Ever since the theme of the exhibition was decided, I have been doing some research on 'Can food influence us purely emotionally?' e.g. if we are happen when eating certain food, is it just because we love the food because of the taste? or is it that the food physically influenced us? Maybe it will go back to the question that can happiness/pleasure be totally separated from our physics.

And here are some articles that I found interesting:
How food starves our love relationships
http://www.thebodyimagecenter.com/uploads/How_food_starves_our_love_relationships.pdf
By Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, LGPC and Andrew Walen, LGSW
Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, LGPC, is a Certified IMAGO Relationship Therapist with the Pastora Counseling and Consultation Centers of Greater Washington. To learn more about Rabbi Slatkin’s practice, visit www.jewishmarriagecounseling.com.
Andrew Walen, LGSW, is a psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, body image, emotional eating, and bariatric surgery patients and founder of The Body Image Therapy Center. To learn more about his practice, visit www.thebodyimagecenter.com.

Emotional Influences on Food Choice: Sensory, Physiological and Psychological Pathways (2006)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0P-4JHMFM0-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1153508756&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5d5c698baeb7450cfc0cc85d78a63056
By Edward Leigh Gibson

Stress & Food Choice: A Laboratory Study (2000)
http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/6/853
By Georgina Oliver; Jane Wardle & E. Leigh Gibson

Food Deprivation and Emotional Reaction to Food Cues: Implications for Eating Disorders (2001)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11454438
By David J. Drobes et al.