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 how these practices create new frameworks for the sensuous, affective, social, and material dimensions of the alimentary in creative practice.

Interleaving scholarly chapters by artists, curators, theorists, and historians with artists' perspectives in visual essays, recipes, and case studies, it offers conceptual framings in art and curatorial practice and critical understandings of lived experience.

The book challenges normative epistemologies that typically operate between aesthetics and politics in food art and performance. It 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 provides readers with 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.