Abstract
This article examines performative dinners carried out by a number of Arab artists as vehicles for unpacking the crises sweeping the region in the early 2000s, implicating viewers in the intensifying neoliberal globalism propped up by repressive authoritarian regimes, that continually expand political repression alongside social and economic inequalities. Using allegories of dinners, dining practices, and diners coming to the table, in the works under review, the dinner table is set publicly as a stage, diners take on the role of actors, and viewers are invited to vicariously engage as guests at the table. Drawing on theoretical discourses on hospitality and space, I argue that these dinner performances accentuate an experience of a truncated hospitality, one of being unwelcome, not necessarily at the dinner table per se, but more broadly in the world.
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