A political food truck
Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz is opening a
food-truck this week, a date set to coincide with the ninth anniversary of the
beginning of the Iraq War.
Through his project Enemy Kitchen, Rakowitz has been using
Iraqi food and culture to break down cultural barriers for several years. He is
launching the food truck as part of the Smart Museum of Art's new exhibit
called "Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art."
The food truck flies the Iraqi flag, prepares Iraqi food and
is staffed by U.S. Iraq war veterans and local Iraqi cooks. One veteran, Aaron
Hughes, also prepares cardamom-spiced tea--and serves it in Styrofoam cups, as
a gesture to the lives of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He explained
this detail to Time-Out Chicago:
