Prøverommet and BEK present: MILF (Mother I’d Like to Eat) by Lana May Fleming
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Prøverommet and BEK present MILF (Mother I’d Like to Eat) by Lana May Fleming, live streamed by Bertha Chan and Ingrid Ormevik.
Monday 25 April
19:00 – 19:30
The Vimeo live stream has now ended.
MILF (Mother I’d Like To Eat) is a performative cooking show by the artist Lana May Fleming, which draws a comparison between the construction of food imagery and the ways in which images of women proliferate online. Through the re-performance of her own adolescent memories of TV “MILF” Nigella Lawson and the viral shock video Cake Farts (2008), Fleming aims to highlight the loss of individualisation caused by their reproduction. Both food and the female body are modified genetically and cosmetically to be performed into the unattainable. By re-imagining these viral images Fleming aims to raise questions around the effect of digital media on female self perception and the violence in its virality.
The performance is made especially for streaming, with creative technical expertise coming from the streaming team Bertha Chan and Ingrid Ormevik. The online event will also include a short story filmed and directed by Bertha Chan called Di/adversity.
This event is a collaboration between Prøverommet and BEK. In the lead up to the event, two workshops have taken place at BEK: Learning to Fly (a Drone), and Camera for Live Streaming. New skills from these workshops are going to be implemented within the event. The live streaming equipment and technical training in streaming are provided by Bergen Kjøtt with support from Kulturrom. Additional support has come from aerial, where Lana May Fleming has developed this project during her Erasmus+ traineeship.
More about the artists/streaming team:
LANA MAY FLEMING
Lana May Fleming is a visual artist from Dublin, whose work explores the destruction/production of desires through video, installation and performative practices. “If to eat is to feel satisfied and to hunger is to seek satisfaction, the primal want of fullness becomes intertwined with the need for sexual gratification”. Fleming embodies these entangled desires manifesting into the personification of food and the “food-ification” of the female body.
BERTHA CHAN
Bertha Chan is a multidisciplinary creator and event producer from Hong Kong. She is the founder of Drastic Social and a body positivity advocate who joined the feminist livestreaming service in 2021, and she is finding ways to shift from a technical role to creating her digital performance art ideas. This collaboration with Lana May Fleming marks a new model of work for Chan as an artist. In this project, she will be filming and directing a short story in the style of an advert called Di/adversity as well as producing a creative live stream set for Lana’s project, alongside her work partner Ingrid Ormevik.
INGRID ORMEVIK
Ingrid Ormevik is a digital content creator and a LGBTQIA+ activist from Bergen. She is the founder of Queer Fashion of Scandinavia, which is a LGBTQIA+ visibility platform. Ormevik will work creatively with cameras for this project, capturing the artist performance and together with the artist and work partner Bertha Chan, complete the artistic vision that has been set for the upcoming stream.
Please note: this event contains partial nudity and is recommended for audiences over the age of 16.
Image: betty crocker rich and creamy *GRWM*, video still, 2021. Lana May Fleming.