The Unexpected Guest: Food and Hospitality in Contemporary Asian Art

Maravillas, F

The Unexpected Guest: Food and Hospitality in Contemporary Asian Art

Maravillas, F

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Publisher:: The Australian National University
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making, 2014, pp. 159 - 178
Issue Date:: 2014

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dc.contributor.author	Maravillas, F	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Antoinette, M	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Turner, C	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making, 2014, pp. 159 - 178	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-925022-00-1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/119990
dc.description.abstract	In recent times, there has been a growing critical and curatorial interest in the conjunction of food and art. This renewed interest in the alimentary has coincided with a heightened awareness of the ethics and poetics of hospitality that underlie the cosmopolitan imaginings of home and belonging in contemporary art. This paper explores the potential of contemporary art in and from Asia to engender new ways of imagining, engaging and becoming at home in the world through distinctly alimentary practices of ‘world-making’ that are predicated upon acts of hospitality and dialogue within and across specific geographical locales. In particular, it considers how the recent manifestations of food in contemporary Asian art might evoke alternative and more extensively relational frameworks for understanding home and hospitality in ways that intimate new forms of cosmopolitanism and foreground the tensile connections between the aesthetic, the ethical and the political in an increasingly globalised world.	en_US
dc.publisher	The Australian National University	en_US
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dc.title	The Unexpected Guest: Food and Hospitality in Contemporary Asian Art	en_US
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Abstract:

In recent times, there has been a growing critical and curatorial interest in the conjunction of food and art. This renewed interest in the alimentary has coincided with a heightened awareness of the ethics and poetics of hospitality that underlie the cosmopolitan imaginings of home and belonging in contemporary art. This paper explores the potential of contemporary art in and from Asia to engender new ways of imagining, engaging and becoming at home in the world through distinctly alimentary practices of ‘world-making’ that are predicated upon acts of hospitality and dialogue within and across specific geographical locales. In particular, it considers how the recent manifestations of food in contemporary Asian art might evoke alternative and more extensively relational frameworks for understanding home and hospitality in ways that intimate new forms of cosmopolitanism and foreground the tensile connections between the aesthetic, the ethical and the political in an increasingly globalised world.

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