Complementing the exhibition Bruised, Art Ecology & Action in Asia, Bruised Food: a Living Laboratory presents art and events in a working kitchen within RMIT Gallery, in order to engage the public in questions of how social practice artists engage with food and politics.
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Curated by Marnie Badham and Francis Maravillas, the Living Lab features artists Keg de Souza with Lucien Alperstein, Arahmaiani, Rhett D’Costa, Elia Nurvista and Stephen Loo.
Through an experimental approach to testing, creating, engaging with, and displaying artistic ephemera and documentation, Bruised Food will present a series of process-focused projects from translocal artists (Asia / Australia) who will activate their research and audiences through performances, installations, workshops and critical dialogues around the precarious ecologies of food and art in a globalising world.
The artists will be working in the Lab throughout the exhibition.
April 29 – May 10 Masala Mix: Opening the Anglo-Indian Tiffin
with Rhett D’Costa
Visitors to the Living Lab can see the space function as a site for experimentation for Rhett D’Costa’s Masala Mix. The floor will be covered in handmade paper as a way to ‘draw’ or ‘’trace’ the activities of the artist residency. Seven large mounds of colourful spices will be formed on the floor in the middle of the room. Throughout the installation, the artist and a cultural geographer will work on the paper using stains from the spice mounds, words captured from the lunch, and other forms of knowledge harnessed. The artist invites audience engagement throughout the lab.
Lunch performance: Thurs 2 May, 11:45 am-1:30 pm BOOKINGS
So much ambiguity surrounds the Anglo Indian community in terms of definitions, histories, and narratives around colonisation and migration. The title for this project, Masala Mix: Opening the Anglo-Indian Tiffin, plays on the colloquial term for an Anglo Indian , ‘mixed masala’, and the tiffin carrier which is a form of lunch box used to transport food in some Asian countries.
