Rirkrit Tiravanija at Gavin Brown's Enterprise

Fear eats the soul is written on the walls of the gallery and
the doors have been taken off the gallery exposing the gallery
space to the outside. This seems to speak to Ranciere's idea of
shattering walls between specialists. I personally like the whole
meditation on fear. It influences some of my own work as well.

At the opening apparently soup was made, and eaten by artistic people
see here

Soup would have been nice on the rainy day that I stopped by,
but all that was offered was the chance to see some T-shirts
being made.It seemed like some of the tshirts were being printed over
and over to the point of illegibility.In the room next to the t-shirt production
were cast of objects bronzed like baby shoes, only here Brillo Boxes
and blankets, space heaters and TVs.

I am not sure what the artist is trying to say, except you can do
this too, and if you did things would be better..There is something
very Angelina Jolie giving birth in Namibia to giving out soup in a
gallery. The t-shirts that Rikrit designed were sold at the Gap a
couple of years ago, in 2007 that company was accused of sweatshop
labor, here student interns who have paid maybe 100,000 dollars for
the priviledge of a MFA print on sustainably
made American Apparel t-shirts. Yet, maybe there is an aknowledgement of
all of this within the show, and while aknowledging it, a movement to change.