
Tastes of Justice
The Aesthetics and Politics of Food-Art Practices in Asia and Australia
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Tastes of Justice
The Aesthetics and Politics of Food-Art Practices in Asia and Australia
About this book
Tastes of Justice reveals the diversity of creative and cultural practices in contemporary food art and performances in and between Asia and Australia. It examines the ways in which these engender new frameworks for the sensuous, affective, social, and material dimensions of the alimentary in creative practice.
It interleaves scholarly chapters by artists, curators, theorists, and historians with artists' perspectives in the form of visual essays, recipes, and case studies. In doing so, it offers conceptual framings in art and curatorial practice and critical understandings of lived experience, challenging the normative epistemologies that typically operate between aesthetics and politics in food art and performance.
The book critically engages with themes including enculturation, diaspora, museology, sustainability, activism, and socially engaged art; it reworks notions of collaboration, correspondence, and commensality in human and more-than-human relations. Tastes of Justice offers its readers unique techniques to attend to invisibilities, inequalities, relationalities, and justice, where the politics of food art is inseparable from its aesthetics – from the way it tastes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 From Commensality to Cultural Difference: A Critical Introduction
- 2 The Edible Archive: Performative Repasts and Art History in Singapore
- 3 Nasi Goreng Diplomacy: Diplomatizing Politicized Rice
- 4 Strange and Difficult Fruit: Durian as a Marker of Time in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art
- 5 The Social Kitchen: Art and Collaborative Survival in Indonesia
- 6 The Taste of Iron: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue
- 7 Therapeutic Botany: Plant Medicine in Contemporary Art
- 8 Boat Noodle Soup Three Ways: Some Notes on Hospitality, Indeterminacy and Cultural Exchange in Food-Art Performance and Social Practice
- 9 Bakudapan: Please Eat Wildly
- 10 MMMEEOW: Mapping Migratory Meeals at the Ends of Worlds
- 11 Mutton Fishing: The Importance of the Ocean for Cultural Continuity
- 12 The Sensory and the Social: Food, Memory, and Community Engagement in Aftertaste
- 13 Chew Chew Spit Spit and A Jeepney Ride
- 14 Following Vegetal Worlds: Towards Expanded Curatorial Methods
- 15 If a coconut falls: Cultural Reclamation Through Colonial Archives
- 16 Multispecies Commensality: Sharing a Meal with Fungi, Chickpeas, and Seaweed
- 17 Putting Your Stomach on the Line: Justice, Vulnerability and Hospitality in Food-Art Praxis
- 18 A Coda in Recipes for Tasting Justice
- Index