The Ziggurat of Flavour Big Chill Festival, August 2010
For the Big Chill, Bompas & Parr is building the Ziggurat of Flavour, a pyramidal installation containing a cloud of breathable fruit. For the first time ever visitors will be able to contribute to their five-a-day just by breathing.
The Ziggurat of Flavour will be a monolithic structure on the hills overlooking the Big Chill Festival. After negotiating the dense mist of vaporized fruit, visitors emerge onto a slide at the top of the structure. As they slide back down to the festival their kinetic energy will be harnessed to make the cloud even denser.
The Ziggurat of Flavour draws inspiration from 18th Century Cuccagna monuments. These formed the centerpieces for the most spectacular public celebrations in history. They were vast architectural structures made of food based on the peasant tale of the Land of Cockaigne; a mythical place with mountains of cheese, rainstorms of cake and where all wildlife was pre-cooked and waiting to be eaten.
The Ziggurat of Flavour takes the most interesting aspects of the Cuccagna monument and develops them using modern techniques and technologies. This means that it is possible to create an installation that is spectacular but also food safe and cost effective.
Taste O Rama at the Harley Gallery December 2010
Fortune, Glory, Nibbles
Coming soon to the Harley Gallery, Bompas & Parr will show Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in Welbeck Abbey's Titchfield Library. Guests will be taken on a trip through the secretive underground rooms at Welbeck before watching the film presented in Taste 'o' Rama - with spectators able to enjoy key moments of the movie with their mouths.
Tickets are now available to buy from TicketWeb.
Illustration: Emma Rios
