February 1, 2012
Days of Dirt
A short film of highlights from our fantastically filthy days of dirty fun at the Secret Garden Party and Bestival in the summer of 2011.
Featuring Dirty Life Drawing, the Disgust Challenge with Fran Meeten, Cockroach Racing, Dirty Minds with Aidan Horner and Zarinah Agnew, Dirty Pub Quiz, and the Dirt Banquet.
Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust as part of their gorgeously grimy Dirt season of events.
Shot and directed by Isis Thompson.
August 15, 2011
SGP: Dirt Banquet
Working in partnership with chef Joe Gray we brought a feast of filth to the Secret Garden Party, each course inspired by the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political and temporal dimensions of dirt.
Starter: Earth. Turf Cross Section: Wild Mushroom Risotto, Cress & Edible Grasses w/ Stilton Stones
Desert: Sex. Yonic Vanilla Pannacotta with Phallic Shortbread
Eminent experts accompanied each course, feeding guests with ideas about the nature of dirt, with scientists Zarinah Agnew, Rachel Edwards-Stuart, Aidan Horner, Elizabeth Pisani, and beatboxer Yasson. All pics on our Flickr site.
The second and last time we hosted this utterly original event – read more about the first on New Scientist’s Culture Lab blog and on the Guardian’s science blog.
July 5, 2011
Secret Garden Party: Dirt Banquet
Working in partnership with chef Joe Gray, Guerilla Science will host a Dirt Banquet on the evening of Friday July 22 at the Secret Garden Party at sunset – the second and last time we will host this unparalleled experience. The first was held inside London’s unrivaled Crossness Pumping Station with experimental food artisans Bompas & Parr.
As before, this feast of filth will showcase dirty delicacies such as radioactive cheese serum, ambergris, Islay whiskey, and an aphrodisiac dessert - each course inspired by the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political and temporal dimensions of dirt. Full menu, which will vary from the Crossness feast, will be announced a week before the date.
Eminent experts will accompany each course, feeding guests with ideas about the nature of dirt. Neuroscientists Zarinah Agnew and Aidan Horner will introduce us to the dirty bits of the brain. Gastronomist Rachel Edwards-Stuart, former apprentice of Heston Blumenthal, will accompany canapes. Epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani, author of The Wisdom of Whores (catch her fantastic TED Talk here), wh0 will speak on sexuality over dessert. And beatboxer Yasson will serenade us with the snarling trills of the spiralidoo.
Laphroaig jelly breast smothered in ambergris at the Dirt Banquet in April. Photo Credit: Mike Massaro.
This edible adventure will provide diners with an unrivaled culinary experience that promises to be both thought-provoking as well as surprisingly appetizing – check out write-ups of the first Dirt Banquet in The Guardian and New Scientist.
Buy tickets here! Limited numbers available – this is an intimate affair.
This event is part of the Wellcome Trust’s fantastic and filthy Dirt season of events.
April 6, 2011
Hygeine Hypothesis: London’s Feast of Filth
Another piece about the Dirt Banquet – and our very first time being covered in the Canadian media. Check this piece in the Toronto Standard (hailing from Zoe’s home town), about our Dirt Banquet.
A Laphroaig jelly breast, with gold leaf nipple. Photo Credit: Mike Massaro
“Please put your genitals on the table.” Epidemiologist and author Elizabeth Pisani was speaking to a crowd of 60 diners sitting beneath the gilded iron arches of a Victorian sewage pumping station. “No, you cannot trade your genitals with your neighbour — you have to take the genitals you are given.”
Filthy good fun.
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