Superblue opening MR art and gastronomy experience - blooloop

Superblue Miami is launching an innovative mixed world (MR) creation and gastronomy experience, with dishes including a “mousse of roasted hopes”.

Aerobanquets RMX by Mattia Casalegno, a collaboration betwixt Superblue and Meta Open Arts, is opening for Miami Art Week 2022 connected 28 November and moving until 4 December.

“How bash you visualize taste? What is the signifier of spice? What is the colour of flavor? I conceived Aerobanquets RMX arsenic a full feast for the senses, a multi-sensory journey, a instrumentality to reprogram each our perceptive expectations,” said Casalegno.

First created successful 2018 and produced by Flavor Five Studio, Aerobanquets RMX is narrated by cook Gail Simmons and features a paper by cook Chintan Pandya.

“How bash you visualize taste?”

Groups of up to 16 guests participate a abstraction that resembles a dining room successful the future. Wearing Meta Quest 2 virtual world (VR) headsets, they acquisition flavours and textures successful virtual scenes and existent life.

The multi-sensory acquisition is inspired by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s The Futurist Cookbook (1932).

Kathleen Forde, a elder curator astatine Superblue, said: “In 1932, The Futurist Cookbook projected an antidote to the panic of the analyzable clime astatine the time, by encouraging optimism astatine the meal table.”

“In 2022, it is our joyousness to bring Aerobanquets RMX to Superblue to punctual that tone again, yet with a multi-sensory, mixed world twist.

Aerobanquets RMX

“By mode of Mattia Casalegno’s visionary performative installation, visitors to Superblue volition beryllium encouraged to travel unneurotic successful shared carnal and digital space for a unsocial acquisition arsenic spectacular arsenic it is meaningful.”

Dishes see a “mousse of roasted hopes” and a “pearl that tastes similar the archetypal clip you ever spot your lip”. Also featured is simply a tart that evokes the “whistle that the upwind makes done a doorway fastener of a acold autumn afternoon”.

“We’re honored to spouse with Casalegno and Superblue to contiguous this experiential enactment of art, which cannot beryllium arsenic lone a carnal oregon integer work, but depends connected a seamless integration of the two,” said Tina Vaz, caput of Meta Open Arts.

Images: Superblue / Meta / Flavor Five Studio