Bompasandparr

Tag: Culture

  • 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.

  • The Joy of Bees

    Bompas & Parr curated the world’s most extensive art installation dedicated to some of the rarest honeys in the world. A four-floor townhouse in Soho was transformed into a golden hive of activity for Relais & Chateaux, the international hotel group, featuring an immersive experiential art installation and gastronomic tasting of honeys collected from its properties worldwide.

  • Cake Holes

    This is a project exploring the strange underbelly of food and eroticism. When we first set up Bompas & Parr as a company, one of the first calls we got was an inquiry about wether we catered for splosh parties. Innocently we looked online to see what this might involve – to find a seamy scene were folks get turned on by sitting in puddles of baked beans. This exchange provided the inspiration for a series of photos of people sitting on cakes, in collaboration with fashion photographer Jo Duck. The photos are paired with a sensual and luxurious film by Bompas & Parr, both are alarming but intriguing. Each participant chose their own dessert to sit on then filled out a detailed questionnaire ranging from more mundane questions about the favourite dishes to how they would solve the greatest challenges to humanity today.

  • Voice of God

    Voice of God

    For this year’s Merge Bankside Festival, Bompas & Parr is collaborated with Hilton Bankside to present an audio-based installation so powerful it appears to connect you with the supernatural.

  • Mr. Twit’s Odious Ale

    For the gloriously gruesome theatrical dining experience Dinner at the Twits, Bompas & Parr teamed up with 40FT Brewery to create Mr Twit’s Odious Ale.

  • Dinner at the Twits

    Bompas & Parr collaborated with an interactive theatre group to present a dining experience with a difference: at the table of Roald Dahl’s most revolting protaganists Mr and Mrs Twit.

  • Sausage Social

    For World Design Capital Taipei 2016, Alice Wang Design Studio invited Bompas & Parr to reinvent the traditional night market experience.