Appetite Obscure
Appetite Obscure is a dining collective where interactive meals and food-art experiences create new human connections. (co-created with Albert Alexander, Appetite Obscure made over 40 events and experiences throughout the Bay Area.)
Interactive deconstruction potluck, live broadcast
"Chronos Island" was an narrative-time-based nautical island food-art experience for 140 people.
A multi-course dinner-experience choreographed inside a de-commisioned church.
"Subterranean Rendezvous" was a dinner inside a mile-long storm drain where participants entered from opposite sides, carried half of the dish, met at the middle of the tunnel, the dishes were assembled and consumed by lamplight. The groups then separated and continued on, exiting the tunnel out the opposite side they came in.
Interactive potluck with: alchemical egg-prophecy ritual, Live sex & bacon cooking performance, Collective ladder/pulley soup sharing, Science lab frozen foods, Emotional food bonding with desserts,
Tea served on multiple platforms of a tree house: Japanese tea, Boba Tea, Chai, Rooibus herbal mix
Richie Rhombus, 2021