Testing Oven
Concept Design - Copy - Digital - Print - Event prodution
A playful experiment connecting knowledge, people and craft
Role
Concept design, copywriting, and graphic design
Collaboration
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Veronica Tran
Gabriela Garcia
2022
Testing Oven is an experimental wood-fired ceramic kiln, made with brick and comprised of two layers - a food & ceramic chamber, and a fire chamber. It invites the public to make, cook, and bake together, interacting with the Queen Victoria Market in various playful ways during the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022.
Whether it be bringing homemade dough to bake a pizza, firing a coiled clay pot, or DIY-ing a toastie from the market next door, the Testing Oven is a home for warmth, play, gathering and small-scale experimentation.
Testing Grounds’ inaugural Public Art Park for Melbourne Fringe Festival launched this year 2022 welcoming a site-wide program featuring 28 public artworks over two weeks, including 16 sculptures and installations, 9 performances, 2 video works and a workshop.
Public Art Park aims to support emerging and established creatives to develop work for the public realm. Testing Oven was installed in the Public Art Park.
Testing Oven intends to bring flavours, knowledge, and experiences over the table to share with everyone to have a conversation behind the process of making. We hope to connect potters, ceramic enthusiasts, curious minds, and food lovers who want to contribute something to the community present at this festival, in Melbourne and worldwide. With this initiative, we aimed to explore autonomy in which we build our own tools, share knowledge, create networks, and develop a participatory process enabling public interaction in the creative process.