Tastes of Justice
This edited volume explores ‘the tastes of justice,’ by critically probing the aesthetics and politics of food art practices in and across Asia and Australia.
Routledge
Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food-art Practices in Asia and Australia is a scholarly and artistic publication, edited by Francis Maravillas, Marnie Badham, Stephen Loo and Madeleine Collie that 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 practices 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
1. From Commensality to Cultural Difference: A Critical Introduction Marnie Badham, Francis Maravillas, Stephen Loo, and Madeleine Collie
2. The Edible Archive: Performative Repasts and Art History in Singapore Francis Maravillas
3. Nasi Goreng Diplomacy: Diplomatizing Politicized Rice Chu Hao Pei
4. Strange and Difficult Fruit: Durian as a Marker of Time in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Joella Kiu
5. The Social Kitchen: Art and Collaborative Survival in Indonesia Bianca Winataputri
6. The Taste of Iron: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue Ariana Chaivaranon
7. Therapeutic Botany: Plant Medicine in Contemporary Art Rebecca Blake
8. Boat Noodle Soup Three Ways: Some Notes on Hospitality, Indeterminacy and Cultural Exchange in Food-Art Performance and Social Practice Marnie Badham, Ploy Kasama Yamtree, Stephen Loo, and Michael Hornblow
9. Bakudapan: Please Eat Wildly Bakudapan Food Study Group
10. MMMEEOW: Mapping Migratory Meeals at the Ends of Worlds Stephen Loo, Samid Suliman, Poppy de Souza, and Marnie Badham
11. Mutton Fishing: The Importance of the Ocean for Cultural Continuity Jodi Edwards
12. The Sensory and the Social: Food, Memory, and Community Engagement in Aftertaste Megan R. Fizell
13. Chew Chew Spit Spit and A Jeepney Ride Rice Brewing Sisters Club
14. Following Vegetal Worlds: Towards Expanded Curatorial Methods Madeleine Collie
15. If a coconut falls: Cultural Reclamation Through Colonial Archives Keg de Souza
16. Multispecies Commensality: Sharing a Meal with Fungi, Chickpeas, and Seaweed Alia Parker
17. Putting Your Stomach on the Line: Justice, Vulnerability, and Hospitality in Food Art Praxis Lindsay Kelley and Cassandra Tytler
18. A Coda in Recipes for Tasting Justice Stephen Loo, Madeleine Collie, Francis Maravillas, and Marnie Badham