Putting your stomach on the line: Justice, vulnerability and hospitality in food-art praxis
Author Identifier (ORCID)
Cassandra Tytler: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0357-7123
Abstract
Working in the kitchen, Cassandra Tytler and Lindsay Kelley started a new collaboration in 2024 when Tytler made biscuits from Kelley’s 2009 recipe for dirt biscuits. The biscuits appeared on screen in Tytler’s video work It Will Not Be Pure (2024) and off screen as edible offerings in the installation In Solidarity We Eat Dirt! (2024). These artworks were included in Tytler’s solo exhibition, Soiled, held at Edith Cowan University’s Gallery25 in Perth, Western Australia, in 2024. The recipe and the narrative unfolding from the recipe in the film offer entry points into contemporary debates about food politics, food justice, and food deserts. This artist contribution reflects on the formation of the collaboration between Kelley and Tytler and then unfolds into a conversation between the two artists reflecting on hospitality, positionality, and the meanings of justice in the post-apocalyptic present.
Keywords
Food politics, food justice, artistic collaboration, hospitality, contemporary art practice, social engagement
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of Publication
1-1-2026
Publication Title
Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food Art Practices in Asia and Australia
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) / School of Education
Copyright
subscription content
First Page
194
Last Page
200
Comments
Kelley, L., & Tytler, C. (2025). Putting your stomach on the line: Justice, vulnerability and hospitality in food-art praxis. In Tastes of justice: The aesthetics and politics of food art practices in Asia and Australia (pp. 194–200). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003622529-17