Today everything in our society is commodified. We don't just consume the goods on the shelves in the supermarket, we also consume time, emotions and relationships with other beings. There is only one exception to this rule: trash. The things we throw in our garbage bins are no longer seen as consumer goods, they are instead the very negation of the everyday habit of commodification in modern society. Even if the things lying in the containers aren't broken or mouldy it's still considered to be trash. In this context the speaking "you become what you eat" rings unquestionable true. The middle class standpoint: Only trash consumes trash. It's from this point of view that dumpster diving can be seen as not only an anti-capitalist way of survival but also a true rebellion against society as whole.

The performance consists of two parts. The first part includes dumpster diving and collecting food for the performance. These excursions will be documented through video. The second part takes place at the fair where cooking of the retrieved goods will be carried out in public. When the food is done everyone present is welcome to join in the meal. The cooking is done against a projected background of the earlier documented food retrieval.

[1] »Containern« nennt man die Praxis, entsorgte aber noch gute Lebensmittel einzusammeln, um sie für ein leckeres Mahl zu verwenden.