This was a live performance sculpture piece. Each moment was carefully planned.
The performance was executed over three hours.
The performance was executed over three hours.
Entitlement held historical and modern millennial references. It encompassed the focus of people no different
than the person next to them, being served with a silver spoon when no work had been done. Historically royalty
was filtered into this mindset. The main prerequisite keeping them in high society to this day was their blood linage.
Pop culture and tabloid magazines have us chasing the famous. A few so famous, but little track record as to
what talent they preserve. Lastly the stereotypical Millennial being given everything at birth with a lack of
work ethics — hasn't done the work but wants to eat the cake too.
The highlight of the piece was a 200 lb., 100% edible sculpture. The sculpture being the head of Marie Antoinette.
Known for her overly lavish lifestyle and lack of concern for the people living under her reign. A vanilla almond cake, layered with a butter cream frosting, mixed with pink lemonade frosting were the base alongside; glazed raspberry cinnamon rolls, strawberry waffle cookies, pastel colored M&M's, blue bird Peeps and candied ribbons were used to make the hair.
A Rice Crispy Treat recipe was used for the face and neck.
Being so heavy, all of the frosting was made and cake was baked (by us) in a local bakery and brought into the gallery space to be constructed. Construction itself took about 6 hours. Each part was meticulously made by hand in order to resemble the hard work that goes unappreciated.
Once assembled, the performance began. The two-room gallery was transformed into a buffet line. Viewers received tickets and assembled into either LINE A or LINE B. Room one allowed the two lines to come in and be served from separate sides of the table. LINE A was served rudely. They were rushed and the person serving used their hands to grab the cake off of the sculpture and throw it on the plate. LINE B was different. The person serving was kind and had their head bowed. They gave compliments and used polished silver to serve large pieces of cake. LINE A had 85 people and LINE B had 8 people. Room two had one large reserved table with tablecloth and chairs. There were napkins and place settings set out, along with balloons. The rest of the room had plastic folding tables and no chairs. LINE A people had to try and eat with their hands.
Many people were disgusted, their feelings were hurt and they felt like there was unfairness for no reason. The people that were served from LINE B said that they felt special and interestingly, they felt like they must have done something to deserve such nice treatment, when in reality it was a shuffled stack of tickets.
No one was entitled to his or her success.
Being so heavy, all of the frosting was made and cake was baked (by us) in a local bakery and brought into the gallery space to be constructed. Construction itself took about 6 hours. Each part was meticulously made by hand in order to resemble the hard work that goes unappreciated.
Once assembled, the performance began. The two-room gallery was transformed into a buffet line. Viewers received tickets and assembled into either LINE A or LINE B. Room one allowed the two lines to come in and be served from separate sides of the table. LINE A was served rudely. They were rushed and the person serving used their hands to grab the cake off of the sculpture and throw it on the plate. LINE B was different. The person serving was kind and had their head bowed. They gave compliments and used polished silver to serve large pieces of cake. LINE A had 85 people and LINE B had 8 people. Room two had one large reserved table with tablecloth and chairs. There were napkins and place settings set out, along with balloons. The rest of the room had plastic folding tables and no chairs. LINE A people had to try and eat with their hands.
Many people were disgusted, their feelings were hurt and they felt like there was unfairness for no reason. The people that were served from LINE B said that they felt special and interestingly, they felt like they must have done something to deserve such nice treatment, when in reality it was a shuffled stack of tickets.
No one was entitled to his or her success.
Let them eat cake.
