Sleeping with Cake

Discreet performance and photographs
Montreal, 1999

Description

I was lonely and wondering if sleeping with comfort food might comfort me. So I baked and bought 10 different cakes and slept with them for an entire night.

The action was one in a series of eccentric experiments seeking the location of comfort in comfort food. Other works in the series included The Broth, where I boiled sentimental objects to make a broth, in an effort to distill the essence of sentiment.

The works were enacted in my Rue du Fort apartment in Montreal, in 1999.

Exhibition History
  • Artcite, The Moon in my Mouth, Solo Exhibiton and Visiting Artist Talk at University of Windsor, Spring 2006, Windsor, Ontario
  • Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary, Sleeping with Cake, in ‘Mountain Standard Time: Festival of Performative Art’, Fall 2005, Calgary
  • Mois de la Photo, How to Eat light, Solo Exhibition curated by Martha Langford at ‘Occurrence’, Fall 2005, Montreal
  • CAFKA - Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener, Solo Exhibition as part of ‘Peace of Mind’, 2005, Kitchener, Ontario
  • Gallery TPW, Warm Things To Chew For The Dead, (Solo Exhibition), during Contact 2004: Toronto
  • Expression Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe, Sleeping with Cake Series, curated by Patrice Loubier, for 'Orange: Saint Hyacinthe', 2003, Quebec