Bioart Kitchen

Lindsay Kelley is a practicing artist and Associate Lecturer at the College of the Fine Arts, University of South Wales (Australia).

• Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience Introduction What is Food? Chapter 1Subject P: Embodying Home Economics Home economics origins of public amateurisms now active in bioart engagements with food and eating Chapter 2Chicken Heart Soup Early tissue culture work in laboratories and speculative fiction; the animal body in pieces Chapter 3Domestic Computing Kitchen as laboratory, recipe as data point, woman as computer Chapter 4Semiotics of the Kitchen: Feminist Food Art Locating a performance politics of food and eating in feminist art of the 1970s Chapter 5DIY Coke Industrial interventions, kits, and critical approaches to processed food Chapter 6Meat Culture In vitro meat and the victimless utopias of the Tissue Culture & Art Project Chapter 7Public Amateurism Critical Art Ensemble's Free Range Grain and the risks of learning in public Chapter 8Cookbook The cookbook form as political critique Chapter 9Carnal Light With Eva Hayward. Eduardo Kac's GFP Bunny, invisible jellyfish bodies, and somalumenal encounters Chapter 10Digesting Wetlands Natalie Jeremijenko's Cross(x)Species Adventure Club, molecular gastronomy, and the human microbiome imaginary Chapter 11Plumpinon Recipe for reciprocal capture among people, trees, and starvation foods Chapter 12Dysphagiac Eating without swallowing: feeding the tube

'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. Kelley's 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 (Duke University Press, 2015); '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 Kelley's 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 grandfather's enteral tube feeding, Bioart Kitchen brings intimate, alimentary, feminist and technological stands together with insight and creativity. ' - Linda Mary Montano, performance artist; 'The 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