ELO 2022-E2Lit

Category

Exhibition

Year

2022

Institution

Comment

The work combines various mediums and literary genres (the cookbook’s taxonomy and authoritative style, scientific papers, children’s rhymes…) to reshape its own and presents the reader with complex assemblages on entangled phenomena related to ecological and social justice issues. Through typography, color, image and format, the book affirms irreducibility to linear logical propositions with the aim of promulgating new patterns of interpretation. The texts, images, and editorial design are based on logic of separation and connection that invites the reader to participate in a space-time ‘performance’ while experiencing dis/continuity; dis/orientation; dis/jointedness of time and space, entanglements of here and there, of this moment and another. In her book review, media theorist Claudia Pederson concludes: “Attending to the domestic roots of ecology (from the Greek oikos, meaning “house, dwelling place, habitation” and “logy,” meaning study), Badani’s approach remakes the kitchen into an art lab, replaces cooking in the lexicon of DIY bioart, and reverse engineers cookbook protocols to serve timely cultural critique.” (Afterimage, Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism , Vol. 47, Number 4, pps. 78–81 – UC Press)