Takeout: An Edible Portrait of Home

Lower East Side Neighbors and Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Takeout/An Edible Portrait of Home, 2004 / Still from video by Geoffrey Jones

Lower East Side Neighbors and Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Takeout/An Edible Portrait of Home, 2004

Lower East Side Neighbors and Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Takeout/An Edible Portrait of Home, 2004 / Still from video by Geoffrey Jones

Lower East Side Neighbors and Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Takeout/An Edible Portrait of Home, 2004

Lower East Side Neighbors and Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Takeout/An Edible Portrait of Home, 2004 / Still from video by Geoffrey Jones

This action deals with food, food preparation, eating and cooking within the context of the ethnically and culturally Lower East Side. I invite residents in the neighborhood to collaborate with a recipe based on their perception of "nationality" and national identity.

Presented with Artists Alliance Inc as part of Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program

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