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Cereal Case
Cereal
Case
a performative installation about moral food
by Christian Fuchs (ONarchitektur) und Max Schumacher |

Credits
architecture / design: Christian Fuchs (ONarchitektur)
concept / director: Max Schumacher
chef / culinary consultant: Ulrich Krauss (Zagreus
Projekt, Berlin)
additional graphic design: Hiroko Tanahashi
performer: N.N. (local)
additional local dramaturge: N.N. (local)
(for places that do not generally understand English or German)
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Everybody knows
Kellogfs cornflakes | or Bircher muesli . Or, at least, thinks he
or she knows. There are two landmark cereals, muesli and cornflakes,
that have been distributed and copied world wide | as seemingly
simple, harmless breakfast dishes. They are way more than that:
they are wonderful examples of great misunderstandings, the relationship
between food and moral values, and the brainchildren of two diet-experts.
post theater has researched Harvey Kellog and Max Bircher and their
food inventions | and how families, followers, friends and frauds
have transformed these ideas to commercial mass consumer products.
post theater then created a performative installation to share their
insights and the food at its core with the audience.
There is pavilion in a lobby of a museum or a theater or in a public
park. It looks like a box, or a monument, or a food kiosk, with
an empty space in the middle and four walls that encases around..
It is made out of bright, natural wood, but somehow futuristic.
There is a man in a white lab coat inside of the object mixing ingredients
and serving over the counter like a bartender. All in all, the atmosphere
of the joint is very noble. Around the object there are menus hanging,
explaining bizarre dishes | a variety of up to 100 different cereal
combinations. People hang out, while they eat their mueslis from
beautifully designed dishes.
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