Kelley - Bioart kitchen: art, feminism and technoscience

Bioart Kitchen plays with the industrial food system taking familiar products off the shelf and making them strange. Chicken soup, Coke, peanut butter, canned food, and corn syrup will never taste the same. Kelleys collection of recipes brings feminist sensibilities to Home Economics showing how the kitchen has long been a space of subversion, performance, and innovation.

Eben Kirksey, Australian Research Council Fellow, University of New South Wales, and author of Emergent Ecologies

This fascinating tome mixes appliance lore, technological food scares, feminist fists raised in protest, artists pot lucks and the Neiman Marcus cafeteria into its eclectic menu! Study it, learn from it. If you have not already juiced your breakfast, try one of Kelleys recipes. This important read adds to a growing shelf of books that show how earlier feminist art set the stage for younger artists today engaged with social justice and food. Weaving in personal experiences, from her earliest memories of eating bologna processed into perfect circles, to the fascinating epilogue that describes her grandfathers enteral tube feeding, Bioart Kitchen brings intimate, alimentary, feminist and technological stands together with insight and creativity.

Linda Mary Montano, performance artist

Bioart Kitchen knots together research and display practices with the threads of art, biology, technology, and activism. I am hungry for this nourishment, and Kelley is a superb cook. The arts of eating are at stake in this book in many senses, and I stayed gladly for the full menu.

Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California at Santa Cruz

Elucidated by means of a rich array of contemporary art works, this book makes new sense of the interface between what it is to cook and what happens when artists blur the contact zones of the kitchen and the gallery. With an engaging lightness of touch, Kelley speaks to the complexity and the urgency of what matters in the bioart kitchen. Read it and eat!

Lynn Turner, Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London

Bioart Kitchen

Published in 2016 by

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Copyright 2016 Lindsay Kelley

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International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art 29

ISBN: 978 1 78453 413 4

eISBN: 978 1 78672 000 9

epdf: 978 1 78673 000 8

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For my grandmothers, Jean Edwards and Ellen Kelley.