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Product Identifiers
PublisherI. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
ISBN-101784534137
ISBN-139781784534134
eBay Product ID (ePID)215904071
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameBioart Kitchen : Art, Feminism and Technoscience
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiotechnology, History / General
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Science
AuthorLindsay Kelley
SeriesInternational Library of Modern and Contemporary Art Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal701.05
Table Of ContentIntroduction What is Food? Chapter 1 Subject P: Embodying Home Economics Home economics origins of public amateurisms now active in bioart engagements with food and eating Chapter 2 Chicken Heart Soup Early tissue culture work in laboratories and speculative fiction; the animal body in pieces Chapter 3 Domestic Computing Kitchen as laboratory, recipe as data point, woman as computer Chapter 4 Semiotics of the Kitchen: Feminist Food Art Locating a performance politics of food and eating in feminist art of the 1970s Chapter 5 DIY Coke Industrial interventions, kits, and critical approaches to processed food Chapter 6 Meat Culture In vitro meat and the victimless utopias of the Tissue Culture & Art Project Chapter 7 Public Amateurism Critical Art Ensemble's Free Range Grain and the risks of learning in public Chapter 8 Cookbook The cookbook form as political critique Chapter 9 Carnal Light With Eva Hayward. Eduardo Kac's GFP Bunny, invisible jellyfish bodies, and somalumenal encounters Chapter 10 Digesting Wetlands Natalie Jeremijenko's Cross(x)Species Adventure Club, molecular gastronomy, and the human microbiome imaginary Chapter 11 Plumpiñon Recipe for reciprocal capture among people, trees, and starvation foods Chapter 12 Dysphagiac Eating without swallowing: feeding the tube
SynopsisWhat do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order to explore and challenge the ways in which manipulation of biological materials informs our cooking and eating. 'Bioart', or biological art, uses biotech methods to manipulate living systems, from tissues to ecologies. While most critiques of bioart emphasise the influences of new media, digital media, and genetics, this book takes a bold, alternative approach. Bioart Kitchen explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.
LC Classification NumberN72.B56
