Acerca de Food (1971-1973): Consideraciones espacio-temporales, artísticas y arquitectónicas

This text delves into the collaborative artistic manifestation of the restaurant Food, launched between 1971 and 1973 by Gordon Matta-Clark and his artist friends. The experience is analyzed from the recovery of documentation, especially the film, understood as a record of the process, as well as from the review of artistic expressions of the time, the environment, the context and the place. In order to frame Food and reveal its complexity, how it emerged and developed, the relationship with Matta-Clark's previous training, his career and the determining factor it had in his later works, -the sections of buildings-, are addressed. Finally, the study allows us to value the spatio-temporal, artistic and architectural conditions of Food through Gordon Matta-Clark's particular way of understanding space, the nature of continuous action in time, its connection with artistic practices and its peculiar architectural conception.