Feeling images and sensing words
Writing outcome from the Firstdraft Writers Program (2022-23).View on the Firstdraft website: https://firstdraft.org.au/writers-program-2024/feeling-images-and-sensing-words. This project experiments with synaesthetic writing to test the potential of language to express the perceptual qualities present in multisensory art encounters.(1) Following the increased reliance on web-based media to present contemporary art during the COVID-19 pandemic, the project responds to the...
Firstdraft Writers Program 2022-23
From 14 December 2022 to 20 January 2023, I undertook a residency at Firstdraft as part of their Writers Program. Project Proposal: This project begins by posing the question, what would sensory closed captioning look like, sound like, or feel like? By responding to the growing theoretical and curatorial interest in sensory art, this project...
Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art
On 21 September 2022, I presented the talk “Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art” at the Museum & Galleries of NSW’s event, SPARK: Museums. Ideas. Connections., at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This talk surveys curatorial projects staging multisensory encounters where audiences see, hear, feel, smell, and sometimes taste the artworks on show. It...
Mouthfeel at Parer Place Urban Screens, QUT, Meanjin/Brisbane
30 Nov to 10 Dec 2015 | Parer Place Urban Screens, QUT, Meanjin/Brisbane Mouthfeel is screening at the Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Meanjin/Brisbane from Monday 30 November until Thursday 10 December 2015. This exhibition first screened at Brenda May Gallery in June 2015 and features the work of Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Hannah...
Further Reading – 31 May 2014
+ VIEW: Currently on view outside of New York City in a defunct sugar refinery is the towering form of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, subtitled or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World...
Lecture: Still Life Talk at Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery
I have been invited to speak about the history of the still life at Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery on Saturday 12 April at 2pm. The talk is special event for the exhibition The Last Supper by Ken + Julia Yonetani which features a 9-metre banquet table cast from salt. I will be speaking about the...
Feasting on Art Zine – Volume 1 Issue 1
Feasting on Art ZineVolume 1 Issue 1 The inaugural Feasting on Art zine features six pages filled with art and recipes. Hamburgers, fried chicken, tomato soup cake and donuts are a few of the delights pictured on the pages of Issue 1. Limited edition of 20 + AP, individually numbered with machine stitched binding. A5...
Exhibition – Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption
Currently on view at the Begovich Gallery at California State University, Fullerton is the exhibition ‘Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption’ curated by Alyssa Cordova & Heather Richards of Sickpack projects. The show runs until the 8th of December and features artists whose work focuses on food as subject matter or subtext. Of...
Julie Green – Four Fried Chicken Legs
The artist Julie Green has been working for more than a decade on her series titled The Last Supper comprised of painted china illustrating the final meal requests of death row inmates in the United States. The menus, gleaned from newspaper clippings and websites humanize a sect of society typically disregarded by the general public....
Food & Art – Portfolio of Recent Writing
Ken and Julia Yonetani / Janet Tavener, Artlink, vol 31 no.2, 2011, p.156 Contributor: Gastro-Vision: The Best in Food-Art 2010, Art21, 17 December 2010 Fast Food through the Lens of Still Life Photographers, Curator, 12 November 2010
Jon Feinstein – Pork & Chipotle Sliders
Jon Feinstein’s 2008 series titled Fast Food features an assortment of sandwiches and sides purchased from chain restaurants. Stripping each foodstuff from a contextualizing background, the food floats against a stark black void — each detail meticulously recorded via the flatbed scanner. For Feinstein, the use of the scanner in place of a camera is...