untitled 1992-1995 (free/still)
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Dec 15 – Jan 6
- Past
- Performance
Rirkrit Tiravanija. untitled 1992-1995 (free/still). 1992/1995/1997/1998/1999/2003/2007/2011–. Installation view, 303 Gallery, New York, 1995. Image courtesy 303 Gallery.
For his exhibition A LOT OF PEOPLE, Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thai, b. 1961) stages five interactive artworks as a series of plays. In untitled 1992-1995 (free/still), visitors are offered two versions of Thai green curry—one made with Thai ingredients from a specialty grocery store and the other with items purchased at a local supermarket in New York. First presented in New York in 1992 the Americanized version nodded to the hybridizations and mistranslations that occur in cross-cultural exchange. Through untitled 1992-1995 (free/still) and other related works that the artist has termed “situations,” Tiravanija has become known for incorporating Thai culinary customs and ingredients into his work, as well as for challenging social codes and attitudes around the sanctity of the art object. “I have, more or less, used the kitchen and cooking as the base from which to conduct an assault on the cultural aesthetics of Western attitudes toward life and living,” he states. “In the communal act of cooking and eating together, I hope that it is possible to cross physical and imaginary boundaries.”
Performers:
Dylan Kim
Sidian Liu
Ming Lin
Anna-Ting Möller
Paul Rho
Albert Samreth
