Honey & Bunny's Food Design Performance Challenges Dining Conventions at Design Indaba
The artistic duo Honey & Bunny, composed of Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter, presented a performance at Design Indaba that examines food as a design discipline. Originally trained in architecture, they now focus on food design, exploring how eating practices are shaped by tools, environments, and social norms. Their performance involved unconventional dining setups that disrupted typical meal rituals, such as having participants kneel or interact with suspended tables. These interventions aim to provoke reflection on the sustainability and hierarchies embedded in everyday consumption. The work positions food as a designed system, suggesting that routine behaviors can be reimagined. The performance was part of Design Indaba, a platform for creative discourse.
Key facts
- Honey & Bunny is the collaborative name for artists Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter
- Their background is in architecture before shifting to food design
- They presented a performance at Design Indaba
- The performance involved unusual dining setups that challenged conventional eating habits
- Their work questions who designs what appears on plates
- They describe their practice as 'eat art' performances
- The performance aimed to make audiences reconsider social structures and cultural norms related to consumption
- Their approach is intentionally eccentric and sometimes humorous
Entities
Artists
- Sonja Stummerer
- Martin Hablesreiter
- Honey & Bunny
Institutions
- Design Indaba