Michael Rakowitz

Artist’s website

Conversation with the artist, with ‘nstallation view of Return’

Art Matters

paraSITE homeless shelter. 1997. Polyethylene, 42" x 36" x 11’ (107 × 91.5 × 335 cm). Manufactured by Michael Rakowitz.

…The cooking and conversation were occurring under the guidance of Michael Rakowitz, a 34-year-old artist who was in residence at Montalvo. In an ongoing project he calls "Enemy Kitchen," Rakowitz invites groups of students or adults to prepare and eat a meal using his Iraqi-Jewish mother’s recipes.