The original “Eight Acts” performance was the first gastro-architectural experiment. It explored the white cube as a spatial and culinary conceit—an ironic reference to the modernist gallery space, an allusion to the building block of modernist architecture.

Eight varied courses of white cubes were served (each prepared using simple concepts of basic architectural moves: Enclosure, Compression, Section, Subtraction, Striation…) and over these eight acts, the diners were slowly enclosed in a white cube space. The gallery space was initially outfitted as a Victorian parlor with a long dining table. The space had two transparent glass walls, which were sequentially covered with white panels just as the Victorian furniture and accessories were, act by act, removed from the room-- thus sealing in the diners.