Making Meal Deal Together

Making Weird Sandwich Together

is a participatory workshop where you are invited to DIY your own sandwich of identity. Using the most common and standardized fast food — the sandwich — as a starting point, participants will reimagine it with their own personal touch.

With the help of artists Yihao Zhang and Lancy Liu, and using tools such as the corn tortilla, the sandwich, and the Hungry Machine, participants are encouraged to bring small personal objects, food items, or fragments that represent themselves to create a sandwich that fully embodies their individuality.

At the end of the workshop, each unique sandwich will be laminated, allowing participants to take their personal creations home.

The session includes sandwich-making, story-sharing around the concept of the Meal Deal, and an introduction to several works featured in the exhibition.

Artists Yihao Zhang and Lancy Liu who support this workshop

Food Performance - Hungry Machine

presented by Yihao Zhang

Hungry Machine is a speculative design work in the form of a small food dispenser that measures the user’s body to create a “customized meal deal.” It satirizes the paradox between personalization and homogenization in consumer society, where individuality masks systemic standardization. By linking bodily measurement with convenience-store logic, the work critiques how efficiency-driven systems turn both food and humans into consumable units.

Food Sculpture

presented by Food Fetish ( Lancy Liu)

Meal Deal adopts a corn-based meal set to reveal the modular and homogenized structure of food culture under the guise of urban convenience. As a symbol of industrialized agriculture, corn appears in diverse forms across supermarket shelves, yet it embodies the illusion of choice and the metaphor of control. The work seeks to challenge the viewer’s perception of “freedom of choice” and prompts reflection on the constraints individuals face within a highly regulated food system.