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Senses & Society VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3
PP 412–418
Senses & Society DOI: 10.2752/174589210X12753842356403
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Pot Luck:
Food and Art
Curated by Cynthia Morrison-Bell and
Anthony Key. Organized by Art Circuit
Touring Exhibitions. PM Gallery and House,
London, October 23, 2009 – January 2, 2010.
Also shown at The New Art Gallery Walsall,
May 22 – July 19, 2009 and the Aberystwyth
Arts Centre, July 29 – September 23, 2009.
Diana Yeh
Intentionally circumventing a historical survey or a
contemporary “who’s who” approach to food in
art, curators Cynthia Morrison-Bell and Anthony
Key playfully conceived this exhibition as a spontaneous
“pot luck” meal, by inviting a number of guest artists to
bring a “dish” (or artwork) to the table. While a potentially
risky venture, the intimate yet international gathering
created an exciting and wide-ranging exhibition, which
perhaps surprisingly for an exhibition on food offered no
conventional feast for the senses but rather an opportunity
to explore an impressive array of contemporary artistic,
social, ethical, and political concerns.
Certainly works such as Gayle Chong Kwan’s Cockaigne
(2004) foodscapes, Helen Chadwick’s Meat Abstracts
Diana Yeh is based
in London. Her
research lies in the
interdisciplinary
fields of art, ethnicity,
and migration. She
currently teaches
at the University of
East London and is
a member of UEL’s
Centre for Migration,
Refugees and
Belonging.
dianayeh@mac.com