We create memorable multisensory experiences that boldly explore heritage by bringing together food, art and poetry.

Edible Archives flip etiquette on its head, encouraging audiences to disrupt expected behaviours in spaces that some audiences can find formal.

We believe in bringing art out of galleries, museums, and theatres. We believe that food and drink is a powerful medium through which we can evoke strong feelings and create strong sensory resonances for audiences. We want to challenge audiences' experiences of art from being overly visual, conceptual, and intellectual to a more sensory and embodied experience.

We encourage a lightness in spaces that often convey seriousness and open up new entry points for heritage stories by using humour and playfulness. We transform spaces through sound, light and set to support our creative cuisine offering unique and contemporary interaction with archives and heritage.

Our installations use multiple senses to create a more accessible experience of heritage with varying levels of engagement. Using taste, smell, sight, touch and sound, we conjure moments to remember.

  • Food

    We use vegan food as a creative tool and story telling device. Previous projects have involved Szechuan pepper, which numbs the mouth, mirroring the disappearance of a stolen artwork, tuilles inspired by goths’ fishnets, and a black tomato leather. Food brings people together and provides a playful, unexpected platform to introduce ideas.

  • Audio is a significant element of Edible Archives experiences. We weave together audio archives, oral histories, interviews with experts, and our own thoughts to create a storytelling experience that is engaging and evokes the themes we explore.

  • Words

    Conversation and interviews form the foundation of our audio experiences, bringing together and platforming voices that bring a diversity of perspective together. We bring this conversation together with poetry which may be engraved on cutlery, feature as part of the audio, or be part of the set or physical artwork.

  • Set

    The immersion of the audience in a moment is important to us. On previous projects Jenna Greenwood and Michelle Wren have brought their beautiful skill and craft to create sets that situate the food and audio in place. From Jenna’s handprinted signs and designs to Michelle’s flouroscent taco truck, and the conjuring of William Mitchell’s art studio as an ice cream parlour.