Michael Rakowitz Artist Talk

Michael Rakowitz is the 2020 recipient of the Nasher Prize from the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. His work “offers a deeply considered vision of sculpture’s possibilities in the face of political and humanitarian crises.” In his talk at Brown University, Rakowitz will discuss his food-related art projects which include  Enemy Kitchen (2003-ongoing), a food truck serving Iraqi food in Chicago, staffed by veterans of the Iraq War working under Iraqi refugee chefs, and Spoils, a culinary intervention at New York City’s Park Avenue restaurant that invited diners to eat off of plates looted from Saddam Hussein’s palaces. Rakowitz will also discuss his new cookbook A House with a Date Palm Will Never Starve that is partially inspired by the cooking of his Iraqi Jewish mother, as a way to “open up a new route through which Iraq can be discussed.”