Bread Banter
April Gertler
Terms of Consumption
English
Softcover
Signed and Numbered Edition 22 of 200
92 pages
180 x 250mm
2022
ISBN Not Available
The publication Bread and Banter accompanies the project and performance of artist April Gertler TAKE THE CAKE: SODA BREAD, first performed in Temple Bar Gallery + Studio, Dublin, and at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, in 2022.
The riso publication comprises over 30 collected recipes and stories around Cork and Dublin, including Mick O’Shea, Rory O’Connell, and Darina Allen.
An ongoing project of artist April Gertler, TAKE THE CAKE is a hybrid lecture performance / baking show with the intention of examining the historical trajectory of common ingredients of a cake using a feminist and post-colonial perspective.
The cake is the vehicle used to explore the complexity of our cultural, historical and social landscapes. TAKE THE CAKE: SODA BREAD was commissioned by Terms of Consumption by curator Julia Gelezova. Terms of Consumption reviews and revises Irish cultural identity through contemporary visual arts practices that in turn engage in conversations around food histories and culture.
Contributors: Aideen Farrell, Ailbhe Cunningham, Anne Boddaert, Anne Clarke, Claudia Barton, Darina Allen, David McGinn, Dearbhla Clarke, Eavan Aiken, Eileen Kelleher, Irene Murphy, Jennie Moran, JR Ryall, Julia Gelezova, Julie Seydoux, Maureen McLaughlin, Michaela Heyer, Mick O’Shea, Miriam and Joan O’Connor, Morvern Odling, Pádraig Spillane, Paula Daly, Peggy Taylor, Peter Foynes, Rachel Allen, Rita Hynes, Rory Morrish, Rory O’Connell, Roseanne Lynch, Sarah Kelleher, Stephen Brandes, and Stephen McGlynn.
About the Artist
April Gertler is an American artist who has been living and working in Berlin since 2005. She studied Social Science Interdisciplinary Studies at University California, Berkeley (BA, – Hons), Photography at the California College of the Arts (BFA) and Photography at Bard College (MFA). April did an exchange semester at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main, which is what initially brought her to Germany.
April’s work rotates around the idea of the communal experience as an access point which has taken a variety of forms for her including the lecture performance, self-published artist books, one night bars and exhibitions, in addition to durational artist walks. Further extensions of her practice include her cultural programming and curatorial projects.
aprilgertler.com
(source: https://library.photoireland.org/fanzines/clever-dogs-actual-photographs-april-gertler-and-brian-janusiak/)
About the Publisher
Initiated in 2020, Terms of Consumption reviews and revises Irish cultural identity through contemporary visual arts practices that in turn engage in conversations around food histories and culture. This practice-based research project is interested in the elements that make up a culture, how it is made, developed, following its constant adaptation and flux, responding to the perpetual shifts in the social, environmental, and political landscapes of modern Ireland, using the visual arts as a means of mediating and translating cultural heritage and nurturing conversations around contemporary Irish identity.
The project is realised through curatorship, commissions, cooking, image-making and collecting, and an experimental communion of all of the above, with annual public output. Though the outcome focuses on Ireland, the research and context is global.
gelezova.com
(source: https://gelezova.com/toc/)
