Throughout the late sixties Fluxus artist Alison Knowles visited the same luncheonette in Chelsea at noon, and ordered the same meal. She came to think of the lunch as a performance, and published an event score, which reads: "The Identical Lunch: a tunafish sandwich on wheat toast with lettuce and butter, no mayo, and a large glass of buttermilk or a cup of soup was and is eaten many days of each week at the same place and at about the same time." Her friends were invited to participate in the performance by consuming her daily spread with her. Their range of experiences with the same meal pointed to the work’s main philosophical gambit: in human experience, no object is identical to itself. 🥪🥛 . Video taken from the exhibition, “Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art,” at @smartmuseum in 2012. #alisonknowles #fluxus #foodart #tunafish #lettuce #butter #nomayo #buttermilk #identicallunch (at New York, New York)
