This article and the research practice, ‘Mother as Curator’, speak directly to the mother developing art with her family, and addresses the ethical implications which arise this kind of performance making. The author discusses two pieces of work she has developed with her children, Oliver’s World (2014) and Isabel’s Shoes (2017). These performance works and encounters highlight and encourage performance making from different angles, acknowledging the ways in which art making as part of family life shifts perspectives on, and understandings of, what we mean be art practice and the ways it might be experienced.
Community cookbooks are a distinctive subgenre of cookery texts, consisting of the compiled recipes of individuals, sold in aid of community causes. Since their origins in the late nineteenth century they have been accruing as primary textual evidence of Australian lifestyles. They depict regional variations in what people ate and how they prepared it, as well as giving some insight into a few truly trans-regional, 'Australian' tastes and dishes. They show something of how Australians liked to spend their time; the organisations they chose to support; and their conception of food, cooking and eating as a part of community life and family life. Viewed collectively, community cookbooks offer a broad insight into the civic and culinary activities of 'ordinary people' across the nation. This article will give an overview of how this special variety of cookbook has contributed to the building of 'Australian' ideals of lifestyle and community: through explicit participation in dialogues of nationhood; through contribution to a wide variety of civic projects which were integral to twentieth-century nation-building; and through their important role in the development of shared social and culinary norms.
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