Breaking Bread

Andrew Todd Marcus

Breaking Bread was a NuVu Cambridge studio that created a performance art piece. Students worked with Lee Cusack, a U/X designer who has spastic quadriplegic Cerebal Palsy. Lee often feels isolated at meal times, and students used Lee's range of motion to determine the actions and communication pathways that would be used in a communal meal. This piece focused on universal roles in the act of eating together, and being fed by each other, to create a level of interaction that could equally be shared by all who participated.