Tenna Alpine Tasting Menu
Art Intervention/installation,
Table, Soil, Stones, Water jelly, Hay, Leaves, Berry jam, Biscuits, Potatoes, Milk, Butter, Chicken Stock, Glasses, with Karolina Rupp & Alex Grünenfelder, Berghotel Alpenblick, Tenna, Switzerland
Documentary: Single channel DV-NTSC, color, 16:10 min
2022
During a 10-day artist residency in Tenna, Switzerland, three artists, Tao Hai Yue, Karolina Rupp, and Alex Grünenfelder, worked together to create the Tenna Alpine Tasting event.
A menu for tasting the landscape of Tenna in nine site-specific courses:
Exhibition: “Learning from the earth”, ART SAFIENTAL Biennale 2022, Switzerland
Documentary: Single channel DV-NTSC, color, 16:10 min
2022
During a 10-day artist residency in Tenna, Switzerland, three artists, Tao Hai Yue, Karolina Rupp, and Alex Grünenfelder, worked together to create the Tenna Alpine Tasting event.
A menu for tasting the landscape of Tenna in nine site-specific courses:
- probiotic hand balm of pasture earth
- mountain spring water drops on a field of nasturtium shoots
- rowan berry essence on good-king-Henry herbage
- root vegetables smoked in bales of meadow hay
- cairn of flatbread baked on talus rock cobbles
- raw cow milk from the Alpkäserei Tenner Alp
- milk fat sublimated into butter ingot
- buttermilk precipitated from ingot
- farm fowl rendered into bouillon spirit
Exhibition: “Learning from the earth”, ART SAFIENTAL Biennale 2022, Switzerland
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