Tastes of Justice

This volume is a timely response to the burgeoning practices of food-based art and their politics, highlighting some of the most compelling demonstrations of this in Asia and Australia today. It is unique not just for how it connects creative and critical inquiries into the aesthetics and politics of food with urgent questions of justice and care, but also as a rare gathering of artist writings. Significantly, the book’s critical layering of artist voices alongside the perspectives of scholars and curators in and from Asia and Australia contributes to the ‘discursive density’ being called for by leading thinkers and practitioners in the evolving field of contemporary art.

Michelle Antoinette, Associate Professor in Art History and Theory at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia

This is a book that is bursting at the seams with ideas, offering multi-disciplinary critical insights into food art in Asia and Australia. Combining approaches from historians, curators and artists working with communities allows the reader glimpses into the often hidden and less theorised processes of social art practices where the event of ingredients being sourced, food prepared, cooked and served facilitates intercultural exchanges and postcolonial self-reflection among artists, community cooks and consumers of food and food-art.

Gaik Cheng Khoo, Professor and Deputy Dean of Research and Sustainability, Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia