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Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija/リクリット・ティラヴァニ

Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2024 (to find water look for forests), 2024
Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama
Photo by Kenryou Gu / Supported by JR West

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is known for a practice that overturns traditional exhibition formats in favor of social interactions through the sharing of everyday activities such as cooking, eating and reading. Creating environments that reject the primacy of the art object, and instead focus on use value and the bringing of people together through simple acts and environments of communal care, Tiravanija’s work challenges expectations around labour and virtuosity. Tiravanija is on the faculty of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, and is a founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective project of artists, art historians, and curators. He also helped establish an educational-ecological project known as The Land Foundation, located near Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Rirkrit Tiravanija/リクリット・ティラヴァニ

Photo: Pauline Assathinay

A map of restaurants in northern Okayama Prefecture recomended by Rirkrit Tiravanija and his collaborator Tomoyori Hirayama

2024.9.2811.24
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