Shahmen Suku
Cooking with Radha
Private Function, Artspace Sydney
2019
Photographer: Dimitri Zaunders
A food-centric performance by artist Rahda (Shahmen Suku) for a private function at Artspace, Sydney, 2019.
Shahmen Suku (1987) is a performance artist born in Singapore and based in Sydney who explores ideas of racial and cultural identity, religion, gender, the home and the kitchen, food and storytelling in his performances. As his alter ego Radha, he has also hosted many events and parties in Sydney and has become an important figure in the Queer and alternative communities. Radha has presented works for Liveworks at Performance Space, Liquid Architecture, Cement Fondu, appeared in The Set on the ABC as a recurring host in the kitchen.
