Gelato Messina makes a ‘choc tit’ for the Museum of Contemporary Art
Images via Gelato Messina
Words by Christina Karras
Lick Lick Blink.
Gelato Messina is partnering with Australian artist, Willoh S. Weiland for a very different kind of movie-going experience.
Weiland has created a 10-minute film, titled Lick Lick Blink, which will be screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art until June.
The work invites one guest at a time to watch the short film, featuring the unique spectacle of an all-female cast. The performance hopes to explore cinema as a social space, and wants to leave you with lingering questions about gender and representation.
While you’ll enter the cinema alone – to leave room for your thoughts – a Gelato Messina choc-top shaped like a breast will accompany the performance.
Made from milk jam, milk Chantilly cream and crumbs covered by chocolate, the creation is topped with a chocolate chip, shaped to look like a nipple. Weiland worked with Messina on the creation to ensure that a diversity of skin tones was represented – something that mainstream cinema tends to neglect.
The choc-tops themselves aim to encourage viewers to consider how they consume women’s bodies on screen – in this case via a very literal consumption.
Lick Lick Blink will be screening at the MCA in Sydney, from March 29 until June 23.
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