Bobby Baker, "Table Occasion No. 10" (1998)

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Bobby Baker is a British performance artist whose work explores everyday subjects such as motherhood, cookery, shopping and illness. She is best known for the Daily Life Series of performances, which includes works such as Kitchen Show (1991), How to Shop (1993) and Box Story (2000). She has performed at the National Review of Live Art on numerous occasions, including Drawing on a Mother's Experience (1988) and Making Fun of Myself (1990).

Her series of Table Occasions, begun in 1997, are unique celebratory performances creating using a table, two chairs and a cool bag full of ingredients. This clip is from the introduction to Table Occasion No. 10, which celebrates the National Review of Live Art and the launch of RoseLee Goldberg's book Performance: Live Art Since the '60s.