Be My Guest: Kocktails with Kiki
This Saturday, join us for a fun evening of casual conversation and food and drink pairing. Your host artist, Kiki, will show you how to make a markiki and read tarot cards for 2 interested participants who want to speculate upon their future with us in an open-format discussion.
“A dish is not just the sum of its parts, it is its maker, its occasion, the company in which it is eaten.”
— Priya Basil, Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity (2019).
Saturday, April 17 at 7:30 pm EDT / GMT-4
Pair this talk with markikis (dirty gin martini)
Featuring Kiera Boult
Curated by Noor Alé
Kiki welcomes viewers to take a seat at her kitchen table for hot gossip and kocktails. During this iteration of Kocktails with Kiki, she will be sharing her secret recipe for success: markikis (dirty gin martini) and tarot cards, walking viewers through the basics of how to read the cards and the pleasures of brine.
Please join us this coming spring and summer for, Be My Guest, a series of monthly casual conversations that will 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.
artist bio
Kiera Boult is an interdisciplinary artist and performer from Hamilton. She employs camp and comedy to question and address issues that surround the role and identity of the artist and the institution. She holds a BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Hamilton, and Trinity Square Video. She has participated in the Art Gallery of York University’s final Performance Bus, 7a*11D’s 7a*md8 – ONLINE, and Life of a Crap Head’s Doored. In 2019, Boult received the Hamilton Emerging Visual Artist Award. Her work was recently featured in Canadian Art’s Chroma issue. She is currently Vtape’s Submissions, Collections & Outreach Coordinator.
curator bio
Noor Alé is the Assistant Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville. Her curatorial practice examines the intersections of contemporary art with geopolitics and social justice. She holds an MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, and a BA in Art History from the University of Guelph. She has contributed to curatorial research, exhibition management, and public programmes at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; and Art Dubai. Alé has written for Peripheral Review, C Magazine, and PUBLIC. She was awarded curatorial residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts & Creativity, and the Shanghai Curators Lab.
Resources
Further reading: Making Throughlines by Sally Frater, Canadian Art
