Join us for a lunchtime conversation online with artists, researchers and curators to reflect on the intersections of food, art, and politics in Asia and Australia. The book on which this conversation is based, Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food-Art Practices in Asia and Australia, 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 understanding the sensuous, affective, social, and material dimensions of the alimentary in art. With critical essays and artist contributions, 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.
 

Book editors Marnie Badham (RMIT University), Stephen Loo (University of Newcastle) and Francis Maravillas(LASALLE Singapore) will be joined by Bakudapan Food Studies Group, Joella Kiu, and Bianca Winataputri to discuss their creative contributions to the book.

 

Joella Kiu is a curator and current PhD candidate at Monash University. Her practice traces how contemporary artists give form to ecological conditions that are drifting, unstable, layered, and fragile. Joella was previously curator at Singapore Art Museum. 

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Gatari Surya Kusuma and Khairunnisa (Nisa) are members of Bakudapan Food Study Group, a collective of ten members with diverse backgrounds and interests, exploring food as both a subject and a tool to engage with contemporary socio-political issues. In their research practice, they combine art, ethnography, and various activities including performances, installations, and workshops. The group emphasizes the importance of knowledge sharing through writing and publishing.

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Bianca Winataputri is a curator, writer and researcher based in Indonesia and Australia. She has a Ph.D. in Art History and Theory from Monash Art, Design, and Architecture (MADA) and her research focuses on contemporary Southeast Asian art and exhibitions from the 1990s to now.

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Image: Please Eat Wildly, 2017, Bakudapan, workshop, Yogyakarta. Photo: Eri Rama.