Inspired by the experience of high table whilst research fellows at St Chad’s college, Durham, Z+Z First started The Salon in 2007 from their Hoxton studio. Their idea was to create a table carefully composed to encourage dialogue and collaboration, and the monthly Sunday Soup Salon was born. Now held aboard the ship De Walvisch, The Salon has expanded from its early days to include live performances and art installed in and around the ship as well as presentations from leading experts in a wide range of fields. The Salons are curated dinners of up to fifty, an opportunity to break bread with artists, writers, musicians, scientists, performers, art collectors and pioneers, adventurers; a club where collaborations form and cultural innovators gather to feast upon new ideas. True to Z+Z’s adherence to the ideas of “radical Physicalism”, The Salon promotes live experience and in-person interaction and has been the catalyst for many creative collaborations. Z+Z introduce everyone to everyone individually at the table and they consider it a relationship aesthetics experiment.

 

Video by James Hope-Falkner

Audience watching Lifting The Curse – by Tim Shaw

Richard Wilson performing

Performance artist Bob Parks

Sean Dower and Ansuman Biswas performing

Jimmy Cauty shows his People’s Pyramid trailers

Emer O’Brien’s “Barbara”

The Ballina Whalers

Jem Finer performing

Filippos Tsitsopoulos in performance

Richard Strange at The Arrival Salon

Layla Curtis shows her “Soup” film

Tina Grace and Pete Helmer, as Tyburnia

Richard Wilson, Anne Bean and Miyako Narita performing

Dina Ipavic performs a Hungarian folk song

Johnny Vercoutre on the decks

Pianist Genia performs

Anne Bean at the Salon of Radical Physicalism

Aldo Ziranek Wilson on guitar

Doug Fishbone presents