Curators Francis Maravillas, Madeleine Collie, Marnie Badham and Stephen Loo will be joined by artists Keg de Souza, Nathalie Muchamad, Elia Nurvista, and Critical Craft Collective to discuss the themes in Tasting Justice: the politics of food in art , a two day event hosted by LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore comprising performances, talks, activations and workshops with artists whose work explores urgent questions of justice through the conjuncture of food, art and politics. Together we will consider how artists from across Asia and Australia use food in their creative practices to address social, political and ecological issues and to rethink the ways we grow, share, and value what and how we eat.
This event is a prelude to our forthcoming book Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food Art Practices in Asia and Australia. The book 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. The book will be published by Routledge at the end of 2025 and this program offers a chance to preview the themes of the book and meet some of the artists whose work is featured therein.
This event has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and by the McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, in collaboration with the CAST research group at RMIT University, Art & Design UNSW and the Food Art Research Network.
Tasting Justice: Artists and Curators Talks will be held at 6.00pm-7.30pm on Thursday 23 October in Block F, Level 4, Room F405, LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore.
Registrations are essential.
To find out more about the events visit Foodartresearch.network
