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Food Material: Aimee Bahng and Candice Lin
For this episode, Active Cultures’ Anna Cho-Son is joined by scholar Aimee Bahng and artist Candice Lin to discuss parallels in their respective literary, scholarly, and visual works—each investigating notions of toxicity and the ways in which consumption and edibility are complicated by the porosity of the body, both human and non-human. To consider “what is edible,” they look to a range of sources and stories: from radioactive mushrooms to the microbial, from the wild boar to the smell of durian in Larissa Lai’s science fiction novel, Salt Fish Girl. Their discussion further explored the interspecies connections that span histories of imperialism, colonialism, and diaspora across land and ocean ecologies.
The conversation was followed by a Q&A discussion.
About the Artists
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Candice Lin
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Aimee Bahng
Event Details
DATE: April 15, 2021
LOCATION: Online