Interdisciplinary artist Daniel Pravit Fethke leads a culinary performance at dinner time. This site-specific meal will focus on the food-as-catalyst for shared dialogue in an arts context, with group discussion a central feature of the gathering. Drawing inspiration from the food we eat, the recipes we pass down, and the places that remind us of home, Daniel places himself in the work as a facilitator of dialogue, as a provocateur asking critical questions, as a host creating space for people to come together, using food—in particular the act of cooking, gathering, and sharing meals—as an entry point into new discursive and public spheres.
Daniel Pravit Fethke (b. 1993, New York, NY) works in film, performance, social practice, and installation. Fethke regularly facilitates workshops, cooking classes, and creative gatherings that center food and recipes as ways to explore identity, narrative, and culture. He co-founded the mutual aid food pop-up Angry Papaya, and has hosted workshops at Dia:Beacon, Socrates Sculpture Park, and The Performing Garage. Fethke has held several artist residencies, including at the Wassaic Project (2024), the Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Guild (2024), and the Ox-Bow School of Art (2024-25). He has exhibited extensively both locally and internationally, and recently published an autobiographical Thai-American cookbook through Pratt Institute, where he also received his MFA in 2023. He lives and works in Brooklyn.