JEFFREY MERIS

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Black, No Sugar. 2015. Socially Engaged Work Involving Conversations Over Coffee in Vienna, Austria.
Black, No Sugar. 2015. Socially Engaged Work Involving Conversations Over Coffee in Vienna, Austria.

Black, No Sugar (2015) was created as a performative installation featured in Nassau Calling: Art in the Bahamas [re-] Visited at Hilger BrotKunsthalle in Vienna, Austria. Using the coffee culture of Vienna as a point of intervention, I met with 30 people living in Vienna ranging from artist, politicians, workers to Syrian refugees immigrating throughout Europe and conversed about topics ranging from the mundane to the intensely political. I made the initial 30 ceramic mugs which were later exchanged with each participant in this project.