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The Big Heart Dinner by Foreign Investment

  • The Portico Library 57 Mosley Street Manchester, England, M2 3HY United Kingdom (map)

An art event inspired by the ‘Dinner in the Iguanodon Model’ (1853) dining event initiated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins at Crystal Palace. Hawkins invited 21 leading academics to sit inside one of his dinosaur sculptures to dine and debate. In 2022, Foreign investment reconfigures the concept to interrogate the morality of genetics with invited guests inside ‘a giant pigs heart’ and audiences to peer into the debate at the dining table.

Presented as part of 'A Modest Show' by Foreign Investments.