Rirkrit Tiravanija is an artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of Thai origin - raised in Thailand, Ethipoia, and Canada. He lives between Berlin, New York and Thailand.
He became known in the 1990's for installations in which he cooks food for gallery goers making the social interaction his material.
"It is not what you see that is important but what takes place between people".
His work offers an opportunity or possibility for interaction and participation.
The Land (initiated in 1998) is a collaborative project on a former rice field in Thailand which is open for artists to use as a site.
Much of Rirkrit's work is to create instructions ("recipes") that other people interpret or carry out.
A project by Phillipe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija. A similar piece is on now at Bard College - CCS Bard Hessel Museum at an exhibition called At home/not at home - works from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg."A group of 5 puppets in the likenesses of Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pierre Hughye, Liam Gillick, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. This is part of an ongoing project in that the artists plan to use these characters for further scenarios in the future."
When asked about the art world rhetoric around his work (the social as the new modernism, relational aesthetics), he conveyed that the role as an artist was to explore and expose the territory, not to be the one to map it out. Critical discourse may be leading the artist but Rirkrit seems to avoid becoming a product of that.
I also found a link to a program at a Canadian University (OCAD - Ontario College of Art and Design) that connects what Bourriaud is stating and artists like Tiravanija are doing.
The Nomadic Residents residency program offers invited visiting artists and scholars an opportunity to explore, in a collegial and collaborative environment, issues of temporality, travel, location, belonging, identity and home.
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