Chew the Fat Von Rirkrit Tiravanija

In the organizer's words:

In the film Chew the Fat (2008), Rirkrit Tiravanija talks to twelve artists: Douglas Gordon, Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elizabeth Peyton, Tobias Rehberger, Carsten Höller, Liam Gillick, Jorge Pardo, Andrea Zittel and Maurizio Cattelan.

As part of the program of events accompanying the exhibition THE HAPPINESS IS NOT ALWAYS FUNNY by Rirkrit Tiravanija, the Gropius Bau invites you to a long evening once a month. In addition to the film screening, the evening will include a discussion between Isabelle Graw, Jackie Thomae and Brigitte Weingart as well as a concert by Casey Spooner.

All of the people in the film - including Tiravanija herself - belong to a generation of artists that curator Nicolas Bourriaud summarized in the 1990s under the term "relational aesthetics". The term describes artistic practices that focus on human relationships and social conditions. Tiravanija is also good friends with the artists interviewed: In addition to their artistic careers, the in-depth conversations focus on personal topics, ideas and memories. "Chew the Fat" is an idiom that translates as "chatting".