Friday, September 20, 2013

Rirkrit Tiravanija - Performance? Art?

This was the piece I was going to show you that wasn't tech-based. Per Wikipedia:

"Tiravanija's work “is fundamentally about bringing people together.” The artist's installations of the early-1990s involved cooking meals for gallery-goers. In one of his best-known series, begun with pad thai (1990) at the Paula Allen Gallery in New York, he rejected traditional art objects altogether and instead cooked and served food for exhibition visitors. He recreated the installation in 2007 at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea using the original elements and renaming the work untitled (Free/Still)."

What do you think? Is this art? Is this performance?

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