No. 2
F/W 2012:
TV Dinners

ISSUE NO. 2, F/W 2012: TV DINNERS

The second issue of White Zinf, as we have come to refer to it, brings together a mostly new cast of characters who have devoted their creative energies to indulge our sometimes perverse obsession with art and food. The first issue of White Zinf was inspired by the ethos of Gordon Matta Clark’s FOOD restaurant—raw, resourceful and a celebration of New York’s downtown artist community in the 1970s.

For the second issue, we swung the pendulum in the opposite direction. Rather than the singular and novel we were inspired by the generic and banal. As a perfect marriage of pragmatism and cultural excess, the TV dinner represents a culinary baseline that spans nearly fifty years. Its origins can be traced to middle America in the early ‘60s to various processed food companies.

But the exact moment of the TV dinner’s invention is vague, not unlike the processed foods sealed within. As an archetype and common denominator of Western Pop culture, the TV dinner spans our collective nostalgia with conflicting sensations of comfort and disgust.

 

    • TETTRAZZINI
    • Yemenwed

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      • BOLLYWOOD BURGERS
        Stephanie Choi

      • MOM MADE MEALS
        Sara Greenberger Rafferty

      • TASTE OF TEXAS
        Ruby Sky Stiler

      • TATORT
        Felix Burrichter

      • TV DINNER PARTY
      • Glenn O’Brien

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        • SEARCHING FOR RIRKRIT
        • Pete Deevakul

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          • ALL DAY BREAKFAST
          • Nick Paparone

          • SAD CITY
            Michael Bell-Smith

          • FLIP N’ DIP
            Michele Abeles

          • MIS-UNDERESTIMATED
          • Keegan McHargue

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            • GOLD STRIKE SUPPER
            • Letha Wilson

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            • CREAMED CHIPPED BEEF
            • Julia Sherman

            • THE DIGGERS
            • Jack Hanley

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              • PIRATE PICNIC
                Eric Adolfsen

              • FREEZER QUEEN
                Ashley Rawlings

              • GERMAN STYLE
                Confetti System

              • SALISBURY STEAK
                SOFTlab

              • DANIEL MCDONALD
                Asher Penn

              • BEEF FINGERS
                Alis Atwell

              • WISH STIX
              • Talia Chetrit

              • STATUS UPDATE
                Annie Choi

              • DEEP SEA ADVENTURE
                Alexander Provan

              • MEATLOAF: INTERVIEW WITH ADRIAN GAUT
                Brian Janusiak & Elizabeth Beer / Project No. 8

              • Dinner @ Jack Hanley Gallery
              • In collaboration with Various Projects
                Hosted by Jack Hanley
                Menu Concepted by Brian McDonald & Team from Colonie
              • Music by ARP / Alexis Georgopoulos
              • Fabrications by Parrish Rash & van Dissel
              • Wine by Revival Vineyards, Buehler Vineyards and Flora Springs
              • Cocktails by St-Germain