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SUMMARY:Bobby Baker - An Edible Family in a Mobile Home screening and Q+A
 
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening and in conversation with Bobby B
 aker\n\nJoin us for a special screening of Bobby Baker’s new documentary
  An Edible Family in a Mobile Home: The Film\, followed by a conversatio
 n about the work between Dr Andy Hardman and the artist.\n\nIn 2025\, Bo
 bby Baker’s iconic feminist installation An Edible Family in a Mobile Ho
 me was recreated on the Whitworth’s Sculpture Terrace as part of the exh
 ibition Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990.\n\nOrigin
 ally created in 1976 in Bobby’s East London home\, An Edible Family in a
  Mobile Home featured life-sized family figures formed of garibaldi bisc
 uits\, meringue\, and various flavours of cake. Each family member was m
 eticulously baked and sculpted by Bobby herself\, who played the role of
  a polite female host\, serving tea\, offering cake\, and watching her '
 family' disappear.\n\nFifty years later\, the installation was remade wi
 th cakes baked by the women-owned Long Boi’s Bakehouse and assembled by 
 Bobby and her team. Visitors were invited in to have a cup of tea\, tast
 e samples of the delicious sculptures\, and chat with hosts – University
  of Manchester students trained by Bobby herself.\n\nAn Edible Family in
  a Mobile Home is a bold feminist statement on domesticity\, care\, and 
 the unseen labour that holds our world together. The film\, created with
  acclaimed filmmaker Hugo Glendinning\, captures this unique\, ephemeral
  artwork\, preserving its legacy for future generations. Audiences witne
 ss the intricate process behind crafting the edible family and the warm\
 , communal experience of its gradual consumption\, as visitors are welco
 med into the work and become part of it. Featuring reflections from art 
 critic Louisa Buck on Baker’s place in the artistic canon\, the film als
 o explores what it meant for Bobby to return to a work she first made ne
 arly fifty years ago\, and what she has learnt about the work – and hers
 elf – in the intervening years.\n\nAfter the screening\, Bobby Baker wil
 l be in conversation with Dr Andy Hardman\, Head of Department\, Art His
 tory and Cultural Practices at The University of Manchester\, who was in
 strumental in enabling Bobby’s collaboration with the student hosts.\n\n
 Please arrive from 6pm to take your seats and enjoy a drink and sweet tr
 eat from the paid bar.\n\nFree ticketed event.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:The Whitworth\, Manchester
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