The Art of Sahrawi Cooking (Kahn & The Cooperative of Western Saharan Women/UNMS), 2012 DOCUMENTA13
Working in collaboration with the National Union of Sahrawi Women, Kahn designed an interactive installation inside a traditional Sahrawi family tent filled with patterned rugs, comfy cushions, freshly cooked couscous and sweet mint where “the public was invited …into the heart of the Sahrawi world…to not only learn about their plight but also to appreciate through the beauty of their creation, the role of art in making a new and better world.” (Michael Taussig, dOCUMENTA(13):The Guidebook Catalog , p.268, 2012).
Map of Sites inside the Installation, 2012, mixed media collage
The Art of Sahrawi Cooking- Karlsruhe Park, Kassel, Germany, 2012, The Exterior of the the installation during Open hours
The Tent Makers Cooperative from the Tindouf Camps, 2012, Collage on Paper , illustration for the Documenta catlogue essay by Mick Taussig, p.268, 18 inches x 12 inches
Sahrawi Women and Friends Beginning to Raise the Tent On Site., May 20, 2012
Entryway to Installation with Corridor of Collage & Texts, 2012
Entryway Corridor with Collage & Texts about Role of Women in the Camps
Visitor Enjoying Couscous and Collages
Visitors at the Installation on the First Public Viewing Day
Looking Inside of the Tent
Visitors Taking off their Shoes in Preparation to Enter the Tent
Early Morning in the Tent before Opening to the Public
View of Front Door from The Tent
The Couscous Event Announcement, June 6-20, 2012, The first 2 weeks of Documenta featured Couscous & Conversation by/ with Sahrawi women from the Tindouf Refugee Camps in Algeria
Couscous Serving Bowls and Spoons for Couscous Event
Couscous Event in Full Swing
Mouna and Visitor (background), Tfarrah and Visitor (foreground)
A Typical Afternoon in the Tent
Ezzana Pouring Tea as Minister of Culture, Khadija Hamdi Looks On
Another Busy Afternoon in the Tent
Director of Exhibition Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Visits with Sahrawi Minister of Culture, Khadija H
More Tea & Conversation with Fatma Galia (foreground) and Tfarrah bringing in Tray
Ardelle Lister Visits with Robin Kahn
After Hours Dinner in the Tent
Visitors Showing their New Henna Tattoos
More Henna Tattoos by Chaia
Educational Entertainment for All Ages
Sahrawi Dancing
Ecstatic Dancing
The Gang Inside the Tent, from left: Chaia, Gbenaha Robin, Stevo, Khadija Hamdi, Horria, Ezzana; foreground from left: Beckett, Zora, Man, Tfarrah & Jimena
More of the Gang: outside the Tent, foreground from left: Zora, Chaia, Robin, Fatma Galia, Kirby, Horria, Esther, Stevo Tfarrah, Jimena , Loncho; back:
Sahara Libre Wear Fashion Show
Afternoon Celebration with Everyone