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All Day Breakfast

Background image: Looking between two people we see a wall, with sticks/poles poking out from the wall, these poles are holding are trying to be the hands for a kettle pouring a cup of tea. We also see two tomatoes, a cup and saucer and a 1litre carton of milk.
Credit: All Day Breakfast, MONA FOMA, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew
By Sam Routledge and Dylan Sheridan

When and What

  • Now
  • Public Space

Summary

  • A seven-hour durational performance for festivals
  • A solo performer cooks an entire breakfast through holes in the wall
We see a variety of breakfast paraphernalia on a table, here we see a kettle and a hotplate operated by a long pole from a wall off in the distance.
All Day Breakfast, MONA FOMA, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew
An egg is cracked and trying to be put into an egg cup by a mechanical arm
All Day Breakfast, MONA FOMA, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew

Description

Breakfast is served 🥖 🥞 ☕️

The most important meal of the day - a full cooked breakfast, including coffee - prepared entirely by a pair of metal poles poked through a wall.

Pullout quote

I stayed for over an hour, unwilling to break the spell.
– Marcus Teague, Broadsheet
we see between two heads a pole from a wall trying to pour milk into a white paper bag
All Day Breakfast, MONA FOMA, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew

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  • A group of people sit ready to watch All Day Breakfast, they're on seats, and opposite a white wall that has poles sticking out from it and breakfast paraphernalia on a table
    All Day Breakfast, MONA FOMA, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew
  • We see a carton of milk, tomatoes, a chopping board, butter and a variety of other breakfast things are on a table, from a wall behind the table we see long poles coming from the wall, those poles have either knives or arms coming from them because those arms/poles are making breakfast
    All Day Breakfast, MONA FOMA, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew
  • We see a variety of breakfast paraphernalia on a table, here we see a hotplate operated by a long pole and a long piece of bacon held high above the hot plate.
    All Day Breakfast, MONA FOMA, 2022. Image: Peter Mathew

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