Bompasandparr

Tag: Culture

  • Carousal: Flavour Funfair

    The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, invited Bompas and Parr to take over and design their annual fundraiser, Power Ball. This year was the fundraiser’s 20th anniversary and take over we did.

  • Library of Shadows: A Garden of Fear

    Hallowe’en 2018, don night vision goggles, explore the darkness and embrace the fear factor. Abandon hope all ye who enter Library of Shadows: A Garden of Fear.

  • Curses!

    Bompas & Parr and the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Cursed participants in a month-long installation within the enchanting halls and cabinets of curiosity of the Petrie Museum.

  • Seismic Sound Bath

    The Seismic Sound Bath was conceived as a deliberately provocative foray into the world of senses and emotions – albeit one that is intrinsically artistic in output.

  • Imminent Future of Food 2018

    Bompas & Parr has released its first annual report into the future of food. The Imminent Future of Food report constitutes the first official forward-looking predictions the studio has made into eating and drinking and comes with the authority of a decade spent at the forefront of food and drink culture.

  • Edible Exhibition

    Bompas & Parr, advertising agency AMV BBDO and the V&A Museum of Childhood encouraged kids to play with their food in the world’s first interactive edible exhibition, in October 2017.

  • Man Vs. Gut

    Bompas & Parr invited ten people to fast for an entire day so that their stomach noises were most vociferous and their food fantasies intense, the studio then created the desired culinary dishes that were most wanted by each person at the peak of their hungered state. The relationship between the individual, their belly and chosen food was documented to create a cacophony of stomach squelches resulting in the visual symphony of ‘Man Vs. Gut’.

  • Tongue Town

    Tongue Town

    A ten year retrospective of the studio’s work at MAM, São Paulo

  • Gingerbread Castle Howard

    Bompas & Parr’s principal love of architecture and confectionary collided with a spectacular commission to make a scale model of Castle Howard, a stately home in Yorkshire.

  • Fridges Fight Back

    House fires caused by tumble dryers may be attracting headlines but fridges, while exalted and celebrated as socially desirable indicators of social status, are under-recognised as cause of fires that can destroy homes and kill people every year.