Review: An art exhibit you can eat in. Actually, you eating is part of the art.
Performance artist Rirkrit Tiravanija in front of his new exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum. By Maura Judkis Maura Judkis Reporter covering culture, food and the arts Email Bio Follow Reporter May 23 at 9:00 AM Twenty-seven years ago, the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija began serving curry out of a makeshift kitchen in a New York gallery.
“Food is interesting in that way, because it can bring people to this place,” he said, “And it’s something we do all the time, so it’s not something foreign. But the experience can take you to a very different place.” Food and politics aren’t always complementary. Politics can lead to confrontations — say, protesters shouting at a senator or cabinet secretary, or a gunman showing up at a pizza parlor to investigate a false Internet conspiracy theory about child sex-trafficking — and confrontations can be bad for business. It’s no wonder many restaurants want to stay as far away from political controversy as they can.
“I think we just need to make a space where people can listen to each other,” he said. “We need to say what we think, and we are going to say and think differently. We need to understand that that can exist together. It doesn’t have to be a divide.”
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