In 1992, Rirkrit Tiravanija cooked rice and Thai curry for his audiences and blurred the boundary between daily life and institutional art by creating a social space for conversations through food. In our performance, we elaborated on the concept of constructed social experiences as art making and explored the Americanization of Asian food; specifically Indian and Chinese. Inspired by Tiravanija’s piece, we offered an environment for people to participate in creating and sharing Chinese and Indian food, while we facilitated discussions around appropriations of Asian food and the tension between embracing and rejecting cultural appropriations.
