FoodSketz all started as an Internet-based project when Cat and Alison were studying together in Bournemouth, comprising of a series of YouTube tutorials with badly edited food how-tos and celeb chef references. It was v DIY and v innocent, mostly due to the fact that it was just dicking around. They have since come to realise that there was some truth in it, existing within the framework of Post-Internet art, but restricted by its narcissistic and flat tendencies [Quaintance, 2015]. It had no agenda, and as they as artists developed, there was a necessity for FoodSketz to re-evaluate itself. The online outlets of FoodSketz (since rebranded FoodSketz URL) simply weren’t enough to create the dialogue they wanted. Hence, in they're re-venture of FoodSketz in 2015, they are creating FoodSketz IRL, a series of socially engaged events based around the sharing of food and information, and re-evaluating the format of education.

In the Post-Post Internet art realm, this does not dismiss the use of the Internet. On the contrary, the Internet is a key figure in the modern being’s education – most things can be learned swiftly and easily through the method of the Youtube Tutorial. Thus, we draw our guidelines and instructions for the IRL events or discussions from the Internet, creating a framework that is both unnatural and imposes the aesthetic of the Internet on the real life situations.

The use of food is inherent as the facilitator of shared conversation and the new utopian format of education. It disseminates the imposed authority of institutional education by creating a shoulder-by-shoulder education; everyone is equal, a commune is established. Compare the difference between the self-awareness of answering a question in a classroom with the casual flow of opinion and dialogue at the dinner table. The consumption and creation of food demands a time frame, and therefore it allows the space to create dialogue that the instant nature of Internet-based education lacks.

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http://www.foodsketz.com