Sensory feasts served to blindfolded guests, transforming the act of eating into a choreography of perception.

Between 2005 and 2013, Dana Salisbury’s Dark Dining Projects invited guests to dine in complete darkness—blindfolded and guided by scent, sound, and touch. Part performance, part social experiment, these events unfolded in restaurants, museums, clubs, and homes across the U.S., including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, and the KO Festival of Performance.

By removing sight, Salisbury restructured the hierarchy of the senses, asking participants to taste sound, hear texture, and feel light. Each meal became a multisensory performance—an encounter with uncertainty, intimacy, and imagination. Through more than a hundred iterations, Dark Dining Projects blurred the boundaries between artist and audience, consumption and creation, perception and art.