The Invisible Dog Art Center, in partnership with MOFAD, is thrilled to present an installation/performance by Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo and Julie Dind, as part of Nafas, an exhibition and a festival celebrating the union between food and art.
Performance Studies Alumni Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo's (M.A. '17) piece, Neurodivergent Pickling, will premiere at the Invisible Dog Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, September 24, 2022.
Neurodivergent Pickling is an ephemeral installation, a ritual, and an endurance performance. Over the span of several hours, two neurodivergent performers obsessively wash, cut, and line up vegetables until the floor is filled with them, before turning them into pickles. The piece proposes to invite neurodivergent gestures into the realm of food. The process of making Persian pickles [Shoori شوری] turns into a framed fractal motion, offering a reflection on culture and rituals. It points to cooking as a way to remain connected to one’s cultural roots and to the culture minoritarian individuals co-create - through the reinvention of pickle making as a neurodivergent ritual. At the end of the performance audience members are invited to take home a jar of neurodivergent pickles, and can discover the taste of obsession a few weeks later.
This piece will premiere as a part of Nafas, a new exhibition of 36 international artists and a five-week festival celebrating the union between food and art at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brookly, NY. The performance is also sponsored by the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD). This piece is a collaboration between Niyoosha Ahmadikho and Julie Dind, a Ph.D. candidate in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.
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