Cartslawgraphy / Escalatorscalibur / Abdomen Camp
"Abdomen Camp" is a summer day camp where we focus on the waist. What can be done with the human waist? We do not perform piercings. We allow waist massages. We encourage our campers to touch each other's waists. We look inside each other's navels with flashlights and red laser pointers. We humans are kin to marsupials. (The pouch of a kangaroo is gooey, not furry.) We decorate and photocopy the waists of on-site waist models and scrapbook our progress. There will be one excursion, to a belly dancing performance thirty miles away. Large black boards will block the heads, upper torsos, and legs of the dancers, preventing us from seeing everything but the dancers' abdomens. An official video will be available. Campers may choose to reference our portable nature library, which features dozens of photos and actual samples of human and non-human waists. Miniature samples in pyrex vials inspire science-minded children. Last year for natural cork stoppers. $45/session.
Cartslawgraphy is a kind of mapmaking using photographs or actual samples of cole slaw and other slaws. At Crude Futures we are working on an edible tabletop display of New York City slaws, to be arranged by color in some kind of river-and-tributaries fashion. It will be an edible diagram of the present condition of urban slaw, constructed in slaw. On the wall will be a list of all the ingredients we know about in all the slaws, as well as a list of all participating chefs and restaurants. Please let us know if you would like to help us research the slaws of New York City in preparation for the refrigerated, glass-domed exhibition of this project. Doggy bags will be given out starting the second day of the exhibition. We may produce a coffeetable-quality catalog featuring hundreds of photos of individual slaws, as well as photographs of the tabletop "slaw river." No website with ethnicized b/w portraits of laughing slaw chefs and their anecdotes which talk about but never reveal actual family recipes.
