ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some of that process of ‘reality setting in’ as exhibition materialised into exhibits and gallery space. While numerous events and decisions throughout the exhibition-making process shaped the final outcome, there were few moments which seemed particularly consequential. The chapter discusses some examples of what came to be politically consequential inflections, showing how they became progressively solidified into the exhibition space. It seeks to highlight presuppositions and sometimes apparently trivial decisions or events which – like bugs in a computer programme – only make themselves fully evident as reality sets in. The process of making the exhibition is one in which the Foodies must constantly manage relations with others; it is a process which in many ways is one of struggling to maintain a semblance of authorship in face of other kinds of players ‘muscling-in’.
