Known for his intricate and politically charged works, Rakowitz comes to Brown University to discuss his recent food-related projects and his new cookbook of Iraqi and middle eastern dishes centered around cooking with date syrup.
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.”
Free Admission
Phone: 401-863-1174
2019/11/12 - 2019/11/12
Brown University - List Arts Center Auditorium
64 College Street, Providence, RI 02912