Dr Lindsay Kelley

2009: Ph.D, History of Consciousness, University of California Santa Cruz [UCSC]; 2009: MFA, Digital Art & New Media, UCSC; 2000: BA (Hons) magna cum laude, Art: Semiotics, Brown University.
Senior Lecturer, School of Art and Design, Convenor, Art, Politics, and Social Engagement Research Hub, acting Head of Sculpture and Spatial Practice
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

Areas of expertise

  • Art History, Theory And Criticism 3601
  • Performance Art 360603
  • Cultural Theory 470207
  • Feminist Theory 440503
  • Cultural Studies Of Agriculture, Food And Wine 470205
  • Visual Arts Not Elsewhere Classified 360699

Biography

Working in the kitchen, Lindsay Kelley’s art practice and scholarship explore how the experience of eating changes when technologies are being eaten. Her first book, Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience (London: IB Tauris, 2016, reissued 2022), considers the kitchen as a site of knowledge production for art and science. Her second book, After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts, is forthcoming from MIT Press, anticipated in print in December 2023. The recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2019-2022), she has exhibited and performed internationally, and her published work can be found in journals including parallax, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Angelaki, and Environmental Humanities.

Researcher's projects

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Scholarly books

 

2016

Kelley, Lindsay. Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism, and Technoscience. London: IB Tauris. Reissued in paperback by Bloomsbury, 2022.

 

Refereed Journal Articles

2022

Kelley, Lindsay. “Biscuit Production and Consumption as War Re-enactment.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2022.2106357).

 

 

2017

Kelley, Lindsay. ‘The Political Life of Cancer: Beatriz da Costa's Dying for the Other and Anti-Cancer Survival Kit.’ Environmental Humanities 9 (2): 230-254.

 

 

 

Kelley, Lindsay. 2017. ‘Menagerie a` Tranimals.’ Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities 22(2): 97-109.

 

2014

Kelley, Lindsay. ‘Tranimals.’ TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1 (1-2): 226-228.

 

2013

Kelley, Lindsay, and Eva Hayward. ‘Carnal Light.’ parallax 19 (1): 114-127.

 

Scholarly Book Chapters

 

2022

Kelley, Lindsay. “Everyday militarisms in the kitchen: Baking strange with Anzac biscuits.” In Food in Memory and Imagination: Place, Space and Taste, edited by Beth Forrest and Greg de St Maurice. London: Bloomsbury.

2021

Kelley, Lindsay. “Hard Tack.” In Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and Astrida Neimanis. London: Open Humanities Press.

 

 

2020

Kelley, Lindsay. “Geophagiac: Art, Food, Dirt.” In Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, edited by Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Krzywoszynska, and Manuel Tironi. London: Bloomsbury.

 

2018

Kelley, Lindsay. ‘Food.’ In The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, edited by Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach and Ronald Broglio. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

 

2017

Kelley, Lindsay. ‘Transanimality.’ In Gender: Animals, Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, edited by Juno Parreñas, 37-52. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan.

 

 

Kelley, Lindsay. ‘Cooking and Eating Across Species with Natalie Jeremijenko’s Cross(x)Species Adventure Club.’ In The Taste of Art: Food as Counterculture in Contemporary Practices, edited by Silvia Botinelli and Margherita d'Ayala Valva, 279-292. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.

 

2014

Kelley, Lindsay. ‘Plumpiñon.’ In The Multispecies Salon: Gleanings from a Para-Site, edited by Eben Kirksey, 122-134. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press.

 

Performances & Exhibitions

2021

Breakfast with an Alpaca. Fermenta, Kandos NSW. 13 March.

 

2020

Bake Together: Anzac Biscuits Live. Collective Anzac biscuit baking via Zoom with culinary historian Allison Reynolds. 23 April, 2020.

 

2019

Tasting History: Biscuits, Culture, and National Identity: A Participatory Taste Workshop. Kandos, NSW, Australia: CEMENTA 19 Contemporary Arts Festival, 22-23 November.

 

 

Hearts & Minds: A Tissue Phantom Tasting. Sydney, Australia: Laboratory for Expanded Design at the Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, 11 January.

 

2018-2019

Ballistic Bundts. Commission. ‘Human Non Human.’ Sydney, Australia: Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.  October 2018-January 2019. 


2018

Dysphagiac. ‘This Mess We’re In,’ Perth, Australia: Old Customs House, October.

 

2016

Ballistics Gel Bundt. ‘1200KWest: Fowler’s Gap 2016.’ Sydney, Australia: UNSW ADSpace, September.

 

 

2014

Dysphagiac 1. ‘Democracy of Drawing.’ Sydney, Australia: AirSpace Projects, March.

 

2011

Plumpiñon. ‘The Multispecies Picnic’ at Making, Meaning & Context: A Radical Reconsideration of Art’s Work. Plainfield VT, USA: Goddard College, October.

 

 

 

Purple Cakes in Jars. Exhibited in ‘Wedding to the Mountains’, Athens OH, USA: Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University, January-April.

 

2010

Plumpiñon. ‘Natureculture: Entangled Relations of Multiplicity.’ The Society for Cultural Anthropology Spring 2010 Meeting. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 7-8 May.

 

 

Grants

Chief Investigator, Tasting History: Biscuits, Culture, and National Identity (ARC DECRA 2019-2022, DE190100080)
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE190100080

This sociocultural analysis of biscuits aims to prioritise the role of taste in history by mapping how edible expressions of cultural heritage drive nation building. Scholarly and practice-led research on the sense of taste is a significant area of inquiry. This project develops a novel methodological approach that utilises taste-led primary data collection in a comparative study of the significance of biscuit consumption. A postcolonial reading of links between biscuits, colonial expansion, and militarism will yield high level cultural, health, and environmental benefits. Research outcomes will be put to practical use by engaging the public through tasting laboratories and popular publication forums such as cookbooks and recipe archives.

This project is still in progress after field work delays due to COVID-19.

Affiliated researcher, Stomach Ache: Art and the Gastrointestinal System (CI Vanessa Bartlett)

Stomach Ache is a research-driven curatorial project exploring the felt experience of complex health issues that originate in the gastrointestinal tract, at a time when up to 40% of people worldwide experience digestive complaints that have no clear cause. It explores how art and creative practice can provoke new relationships with this complex part of our anatomy, enhancing and challenging medical investigation into the links between trauma, diet, environment, and digestion. 

https://stomachacheproject.com/

Current student projects

Sophia Dacy-Cole, PhD candidate ANU School of Art & Design, On Country, what can a body do? The clinical effects of touching plants and soil on Country.

Melody Owen, PhD candidate UNSW School of Art & Design, The Volume of Language: Animal Voices in Social Virtual Worlds.

Lauren Kalman, PhD candidate ANU School of Art & Design, Embodied Subject: Performance, Craft, and the Body  

Hannah Quinlivan, PhD candidate ANU School of Art & Design, A practice-led investigation of the relationship between line and rhythm

Past student projects

I am currently considering proposals for postgraduate supervision (research degrees only) from practitioners working at the nexus of art practice and/or theory and food, eating, metabolism & digestion. Proposals outside of this scope will not be considered.

Postgraduate Supervision completions include:

2022

 

 

 

2021

Debra Keenahan, PhD: Critical disability aesthetics: Relational dynamics and the embodied experience of a female dwarf. UNSW Arts, Design, and Architecture. Secondary supervision with ARC Laureate Jill Bennett.

 

Megan Fizell, PhD: Gastronomic Body: sensory and sociocultural dimensions of food art. UNSW Arts, Design, and Architecture. Joint supervision with David Eastwood.

 

Emily Parsons-Lord, PhD: AIR WORKS: Air as material in contemporary installation and performance art in a time of climate emergency. UNSW Art & Design. Joint supervisor with Kate Dunn.

2020

Clare Nicholson, PhD: Speculative Obstetric Models: material remakings of historical anatomical models and contemporary epigenetic agency UNSW Art & Design (winner of 2020 Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses). Primary supervisor.

 

Jo Burzynska, PhD: Tuning Sensory Terroir: Mapping correspondences between sound and wine in a crossmodal art practice. UNSW Art & Design (winner of 2020 Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses). Secondary supervisor, primary supervisor Douglas Kahn.

 

Claudia Álvarez Arozqueta, PhD: Heartbeats in the Arts: The Pulse of History.  UNSW Art & Design. Secondary supervisor, primary supervisor Douglas Kahn.

 

Meng-Yu Yan, MFA: A Sensitive Surface: Exploring Queer Spectrality through Lens-based Paranormal Methods UNSW Art & Design. Primary supervisor.

2018

Lisa Sammut, MFA: Cosmic Choreographies: tools, monuments, echoes (joint supervision with Clare Milledge) UNSW Art & Design. Joint supervisor with Clare Milledge.

 

Kassandra Bossell, MFA: Humans Inside Nature: Shared Agency in Multispecies Art UNSW Art & Design. Primary supervisor.

2017

Diana Baker Smith, Ph.D: Re-doing the Histories of Performance: Re-enactment and the Historiographies of Live Art UNSW Art & Design (winner of the 2017 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research). Primary supervisor.

 

Cecilia White, Ph.D: Performance Art and Irigarayan Renaissance: Anxiety, Wonder and a Poetics of Breath UNSW Art & Design. Primary supervisor.

2016

Louise Zhang, MFA: Monstrous Masses: Horror and Slime in Art UNSW Art & Design. Joint supervisor with David Eastwood.

2015

Robbie Karmel, MFA: The Drawing of Bodies and Things: Embodiment, observation, and representation UNSW Art & Design. Primary supervisor.

 

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

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