Rujuta Rao: BAR niro

At Bungee Space, artist Rujuta Rao invites the audience to experience artworks from a menu across a bar counter in her participatory installation BAR niro. The menu includes the Goan distilled beverage cashew feni, an edible pairing, artworks, artist books, and printed matter made by Rao during her 2024 Center for Book Arts Residency in New York City. The works included in the menus encapsulate Rao’s learning of cashew feni while drawing parallels between its history and her family’s migration to Goa. They were made alongside studying the production of cashew feni, its role within Goa’s social fabric, its use in ceremonies, rituals, and for medicinal purposes and its history which begins with the cashew plant which was brought by Portuguese colonialists from Brazil to India.

Bungee Space recommends RSVPing for the event. Since your confirmation will assist Rujuta in preparing the BAR niro. There is a sliding scale for RSVP payment options: $10, $12, $14, or $16.