Drinks and Dumplings

Categories: 2020s · Food · Performance · Recipes · Video · Web-based ProjectsTags: ·

90 minute Zoom Artist’s Talk and Cooking Lesson hosted by the VAC Clarington’s “Be My Guest” series on May 16, 2021 The VAC Clairington’s Be My Guest Series is a series of monthly casual conversations that bring together artists, writers, and curators speaking about notions of community, spirituality, and ethics through mediated engagements with food and drink pairings. Before each conversation, participants will receive a menu with instructions to gather affordable ingredients in order to prepare the recipes for each engagement in their homes.  In May 2021, Elaine Tin Nyo hosted a virtual visit to a rustic french cooking school (The…

Sour Cherries 2012 available on iBookstore

Categories: 2010s · Books · Food · News · Photography · Projects · Web-based ProjectsTags: · · · ·

My first electronic artist book, Sour Cherries 2012, chronicles the 20 sour cherry pies that I baked during the heat wave of 2012. This iBook includes over 250 original photographs,  video and text. (iPad only) Sour Cherry Pie is an annual art project that is part endurance performance, part journal. For nearly a decade, I have made one sour cherry pie a day and shared them with my friends and acquaintances. I send an email report to the pie list each time a pie is consumed. The performance lasts as long as the cherry season, about three weeks. It happens in the most intimate of…