Diane Bondareff
Dessart?: Park Avenue Winterâthe fancy Upper East Side restaurant that completely transforms with the seasonsâis kicking off an interesting collaboration with Creative Time, starting tonight with an audio/edible dessert designed by performance artist Marina AbramoviÄ. She worked with Executive Chef Kevin Lasko to create the Volcano FlambÃ© ($20), which is made with ingredients supposedly known for their aphrodisiac qualities. With the dish, you're handed an mp3 player and a set of headphones which play a pre-recorded message from AbramoviÄ instructing you "how to eat and experience her creation."

The dessert is described as a "unique take on a traditional Baked Alaska, made with dark chocolate ice cream, almond sponge cake and banana mousse encased in Swiss meringue. It is accompanied by dark chocolate crumbs with gold sugar accent and set afire with dark rum." It also comes with a special "take-away" piece of artwork called "Spirit Recipe." It's an etching based on AbramoviÄ's extremely-limited edition book about cooking with essential aphrodisiac recipes. Most pretentious dessert ever?

As the seasons change, Park Avenue Winter will change to Park Avenue Spring, and artist Janine Antoni will take over with her own food collaboration, followed by Paul Ramirez Jonas and Michael Rakowitz. Abramovicâs food experience will be served through Sunday, March 20th. By eating it, the artist will be present inside you, for a few hours at least.

100 East 63rd Street at Park Avenue, (212) 644-1900

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