Monday, May 01, 2023
Time and Location TBD
On Monday, May 01 (time TBD), you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Art Professor Beth Stephens’ course for a talk with S&J Visiting Scholar Lindsay Kelley on Baking Strange.
What exactly do we eat when we eat a biscuit? Everyday objects like biscuits contain unexpected, dense connections that illuminate material and cultural networks. Thousands of years before biscuits could be purchased in packets from the grocery store, twice-baked breads circulated as military rations. When we eat biscuits, we digest their military ration predecessors with each mouthful. Their ingredients have commemorative significance and may function as reenactments of specific military contexts. Using taste and recipe formats as key methods, the multiyear research initiative Tasting History involves diverse publics in experiences of tasting and eating together.
Lindsay Kelley is a visiting scholar with the Science and Justice Research Center. She works with food and eating as sculptural and social art forms. Kelley is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art & Design, College of the Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University, and she holds a MFA in Digital Art & New Media and a PhD in the History of Consciousness, both from the University of California Santa Cruz. She has written two books, Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience and forthcoming from MIT Press, After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts.