Conceived to introduce disruption into daily shopping habits, the tour invites the audience to have a different kind of engagement with their local supermarket, treating it as a ready made scenography for a meandering, playful and mildly choreographic narrative on the politics of food production, distribution and consumption. Amongst the subjects covered are: Bourdieu’s theory of class distinction, bread riots, political neurology of disgust, the Great Irish Famine, the role of bananas in the Colombian civil war, migrant agricultural labour, automation, climate change crops, the psychology of shopping habits and Mussolini’s ban on pasta.

Commissioned by Artsadmin as part of What Shall We Build Here festival, curated by Mary Osborne, narrated by Anna-Maria Nabirye, sound by Martin Clarke. Originally part of Local Minima project with Vision Forum.

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