Silent Dinner Party

Overview

If you’re bad at dinner table conversation, this event is for you. Honi Ryan is an interdisciplinary artist from the Blue Mountains and has been taking the world by (a very quiet) storm with her Silent Dinner Party performance art project.

At this Sydney Fringe incarnation, guests will be treated to a three-course meal prepared by Studio NEON at Marrickville Town Hall. The catch is, you can’t utter a word or sound during the event. You also aren’t allowed to read, write or use your mobile phone.

Talking around the table is a global human ritual — this is a social experiment that will shake up social norms for the sake of artistic experience (not to mention delicious food).

This event is one of our top ten picks of the Sydney Fringe Festival. See the other nine here. Image: Dollar Photo Club.