| a project for Primavera 2011,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
by Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe | | | | 
As part of Primavera 2011 – the Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual exhibition of young artists (located this year off-site throughout The Rocks) – Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe bring you The Delirious Bakery, a site-responsive underground bakery that collects and dispenses dissent via recovered oral traditions.
In its first iteration over several weeks in residence at The Red Room Company’s pop-up ‘Clubhouse’ (formerly home to a Chinese gambling den, a provisions storehouse and a puppet shop), The Delirious Bakery hosted a new secret society – the ‘Sweet Damper and Gossip Society’ – occasionally opening its doors to passers-by for general trade.
Future operations of The Delirious Bakery may include sharing sourdough starter cultures, jams, recipes, language and cooking equipment. Please contact us if you would like to contribute in some way, or can suggest future homes for the now itinerant Bakery.
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Between 21 Sept and 23 Oct 2011, the ‘Sweet Damper and Gossip Society’ met regularly in the Bakery for ‘low teas’ at which tales about the darker underside of The Rocks were exchanged with each sticky wattleseed bun. Every low tea featured an invited special guest, however members were advised to bring along their own relevant stories wherever possible. These sometimes slippery, contested and confronting histories were subsequently imparted to others from memory on a public open day.
The Sweet Damper and Gossip Society is presently in hiatus, but will resume meetings at a new location at some point in the future. You can still join the Society by emailing bakery@makeshift.com.au with contact details and a brief outline of your interest. As a member, you will receive invitations to forthcoming meetings, an official badge, and occasional newsletters and/or sweet treats. It is requested (but not essential) that members endeavour to later recount stories heard at meetings to members of the general public.
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| | Sweet Damper & Gossip Society
Meeting #6 (final)
Tuesday 25 October | evening
Special guest Nina Temporär on seafaring political prisoners the luddites and Occupy
 | Delirious Bakery Closing 'Low Tea'
Saturday 22 October
Society members chat to the public about
past meeting proceedings and
constructing delirious histories | Sweet Damper & Gossip Society
Meeting #5
Thursday 20 October | morning
Special guest Jeremy Steele on
researching the Aboriginal
language of Sydney | Sweet Damper & Gossip Society
Meeting #4
Tuesday 18 October | evening
Special guest Helen Fong on the sizeable
Chinese community that formed
in The Rocks from the 1890s
| Sweet Damper & Gossip Society
Meeting #3
Saturday 15 October | morning
Special guest John von Sturmer
on invented histories | Sweet Damper & Gossip Society
Meeting #2
Tuesday 11 October | evening
Special guest Ross Gibson
on the shape-shifting world of William Dawes
| Sweet Damper & Gossip Society
Meeting #1
Tuesday 4 October | evening
Special guest Michael Paton
on the advantageous lie of the land
at Sydney Cove
| Sweet Damper and Gossip Society ‘Low tea’
Sunday 11 September
Introduction to the Society
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There are no upcoming events at present.
If you would like to one day host
The Delirious Bakery please contact us
| | | | | To receive newsletters and information on future movements of the Delirious Bakery and its resident Sweet Damper and Gossip Society please subscribe to our mailing list: | | | | | Check ‘ Upcoming Events’ for details on Society meetings and public bakery open days. | | | | | | | - CONTRIBUTORS TO THE DELIRIOUS BAKERY - | A most sincere THANK YOU to everyone who shared stories or tea, objects or ingredients or just their ears. You are all missed! |  | |  | | | Newsletter #1 will be published shortly. Don't forget to join the mailing list above to have it delivered to your inbox... | | | - OF INTEREST TO MEMBERS - |
more coming soon
| | CONTACT US | -EmaiL-
BAKERY@makeshift.com.au
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PO Box 1468, Strawberry HillS, NSW 2012
-Phone-
0411 873 322
Rear basement, 77 George St. The Rocks
(entry via Kendall Lane)
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