Outlandish

An absurd fine dining experience

Documentation by Nainisha Dedhia Identity by Stuti Sukhani Live Music by Krishnaraj Soni Actors Shivam and Lavnik

Project Details

Outlandish is a pop-up restaurant created as an immersive experience at the National Institute of Design by the Exhibition and Spatial Design batch of 2016. 'Outlandish' the immersive experience aims to introduce the protagonist (the audience) with the alien in the familiar through lavish fine dining. As the experience unfolds itself to the 'customers', they acquaint themselves with all the absurdity the space and their tabletop offers.

Year

Client

Category

Role

2019

National Institute of Design

Scenographic & Immersive Experience

'Outlandish' Conceptualised and Produced by : Aditi Lunia, Devansh Khajanchi, Khushboo Mehrotra, Noora Yasmin, Shruti Chakke, Sunaina Desai and Urja Jhaveri

The beauty lies in the details — Scenography from set design, to costumes, production and scripted lines.

Acquaint yourselves with all the absurdity the space and your tabletop offers.

Outlandish served a total of five dishes to the customers for the evening — Reverie, Censorship, Lust, Marriage, and Patience. To add on to the satirical take of a fine dining restaurant, we offered two more Plated — a juicy plum and melted chocolate dripping down a spanner with no cutlery. The 'sinner' is asked to eat this dish as creatively as possible. Servers leaving the table with a cheeky grin and a quick 'enjoy the meal' to the onlookers on the table, who would soon witness the 'sinner' indulge. Served to the 'dreamer,' Reveire was meant to encourage play, like in our dreams. A shallow bowl with milk was served with three test-tubes filled with red, green, and orange food colouring, and was accompanied with a dropper and a cotton swab dipped in dish soap. The 'dreamer' got a set of instructions, leaving them to 'dream' on their own. Patience — a dish that was meant to test your forbearance by taking ages to reach your table top, often the last to be served. It consisted of a game like Jenga with wafers as some of the game pieces. The idea of the dish was to make the customer 'patiently' pick the wafers out to eat.