Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food-Art Practices in Asia and Australia

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.

About the Author

Francis Maravillas is Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Art Histories and Curatorial Practices: Asia and the World, and Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.

Marnie Badham is an Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University, Naarm/Melbourne, and a director for Res Artis: Worldwide Network for Artist Residencies .

Stephen Loo is Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle, Australia and formerly Professor of Interdisciplinary Design at UNSW.

Madeleine Collie is a curator, writer, and researcher whose work engages with the politics of plants, poetics, and ecological relations in contemporary art.