Food as Artistic Practice
Ortsbezogene Kunst
In this talk Elia will present her artistic practice as an individual artist and part of the collective that works with the spectrum issues of food. Starting with her project which explores several subjects and ingredients in our daily consumption that she found politically interesting. From rice, sugar, tropical fruits, to palm oil. She uses several approaches and formats to present her works, from social engagement activities, performative lunch and dinner, video and installation.
Apart from her individual practice, in 2015 she also formed a study group called Bakudapan Food study group in Yogyakarta. She also will share how the collective was formed and what kind of practice and methodology in their works. By presenting some projects that are done with Bakudapan it will also reflect how she works between individual and collective.
Elia Nurvista explores a wide range of art mediums with an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the discourse on food. Through food, she intends to scrutinize power, social, and economic inequality in this world. Using several mediums from workshops, study groups, publications, site-specific, performances, videos, and art installations, she explores the social implications of the food system to critically address wider issues such as ecology, gender, class, and geopolitics.
She has participated in several exhibitions including Sharjah Biennial 15 in Sharjah (2023), Dhaka Art Summit in Dhaka (2020), Karachi Biennale in Karachi (2019) and ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, at QAGOMA, Brisbane (2018) among others.
Currently Elia is participating in a research residency at Zukunftshof, Vienna.
https://elianurvista.com/
https://bakudapan.com/en/
https://strugglesforsovereignty.net/
