Here is a short video I made which reflects on Hyperlinked Communities.
Nota bene: in the video I mistakenly call Rirkrit Tiravanija a Thai-American artist. In fact, he was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Thailand, Ethiopia, and Canada. He went to art school in Chicago.
@arthurkolat So enjoyed this while I had my tea this morning. I appreciate where you took the idea of sharing food as a means to connect. The salad example is amazing.
The bowls are from IKEA … an old set we had on hand for years. Soup night IMHO requires a fresh different bow for each soup!
@michael Very happy you enjoyed it. Regarding the salad piece…imagine buying salad ingredients for 1,900 people, as she did for the 2008 Tate performance. The salad keeps getting bigger and bigger over time. Here’s a great video that shows more of the Tate performance.
@arthurkolat Well 11 days flew by! Very cool video!
@arthurkolat Great video! I love the idea the framing participatory library services as a kind of conceptual art piece. It really highlights how services can be rooted in a sense of playful experimentation, rather than the more traditional focus on their “impact”. I’ll have to look into Rirkrit Tiravanija’s work. He sounds very interesting. I also had the pleasure of seeing Alison Knowles “Make A Salad” in person, pre-pandemic, at the Walt Disney Music Hall during a small Fluxus festival they put on. It was a lot of fun. Aside from the fun of watching the making of a huge salad as a public performance and the shared meal, I remember the smells adding a very interesting element to the whole experience. It made the whole thing feel intimate in a way I wasn’t expecting.
@louis Thanks for your comment. I’m sorry I missed Make a Salad at the Disney Hall. I didn’t even think of how the whole performance must smell! That definitely adds a dimension that is not captured in the videos. BTW, I actually go the the Disney quite often because I subscribe to their Green Umbrella series (new music). Maybe we’ll run into each other at a performance!