The Aldrich exhibiting artist Peter Liversidge proposed that The Aldrich would host a community meal of homemade sausages (his grandfather's special recipe), salad, bread, wine and locally brewed beer - and today, it happened.
London native, Liversidge realized one of his artistic dreams as the townspeople gathered under a big tent in the back of The Aldrich to enjoy a locally sourced meal. Fresh greens from Simpaug Farms, bread from Ross Bread Shoppe & Coffee House, beer from Connecticut's Black Hog, sausages prepared by Chef Bernard Bouissou, were just some of the ways this artist created memories (and art) in Ridgefield.
Thanks to The Aldrich and community partners who made today possible - and to local bluegrass band, The Bandolins for providing live music.
About Peter Liversidge & his Sixty Proposals
For the past decade, Peter Liversidge’s practice has focused on the creation of conceptually based proposals that describe artworks that might—or might not—be realized. Typed on an Olivetti manual typewriter, these proposals—complete with typographical errors and hand annotations—describe ideas from the practical to the far-fetched. Liversidge wrote sixty proposals for The Aldrich (all of the typescripts are included in the exhibition), and twenty-three have been chosen for realization, guided by the concept of connecting the interior of The Aldrich Museum with both the surrounding landscape and the community. These include working with the employees of Ridgefield Hardware, the town’s hardware store, to write a song about the store that they will publically perform;* ring a cannonball into the Museum’s wall in reference to the action during the Revolutionary War that led to a British cannonball being embedded in the wall of the Keeler Tavern, Ridgefield’s Colonial-era historical site; and the fabrication of nine shallow, circular aluminum pans whose relative sizes correspond to the nine largest lakes in Connecticut, with the pans being subsequently filled with water from the specific lakes.
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