Even though food-based artworks are no longer a new occurrence within art practice, the particular practice of food that uses taste, smell and touch as artistic medium is still relatively new. This practice poses new challenges at both the creative and receptive ends: for the audience the challenge is linked to understanding and relating with the artwork while for the artist it involves directing the audience’s engagement. Under the theoretical lens of Somaesthetics and Langer’s Mindfulness discourse, this thesis has examined what it means to appreciate food-based artworks through taste, smell and touch. It has also investigated ways in which this form of practice can be developed further. Practice within the research has been used as a means of thinking through the creative choices taken by artists with the purpose of understanding how perceptibility and engagement with food-based works through taste, smell and touch can be enhanced. Some of the key references include Miwa Koizumi’s NY flavors, Burkhard Bacher & Herbert Hinter’s Landscape, Maki Ueda’s Aromascape, and several works by Sam Bompas and Harry Parr amongst others. The outcome of the research include: the development of an attentive discourse of appreciation which outlines the conditions necessary for the appreciation of food-based artwork through its taste, smell and touch; and the articulation of creative strategies that can be used by artists to enhance the perceptibility of taste, smell and touch and encourage engagement. The contributions to knowledge made by this thesis include: The introduction of a new genre of food-based practice; the use of Somaesthetics and Mindfulness as a lens to examine the appreciation of food-based art; the identification of new concerns within practice facing artists using food’s taste, smell and touch as medium; and the new form of encounter with art that requires a mindful-somatic attentiveness.

Darbo objektas – ekologiškai auginamos bulvės, kuriose pasireiškia kolorado vabalai. Darbo tikslas – įvertinti pušų ir gvazdikėlių ekstraktų poveikį kolorado vabalams bulvių pasėliuose. Darbo metodai – tyrimas buvo vykdomas 2007 m.. Bulvių sėkla daiginta 20 dienų šviesioje ir šiltoje patalpoje. Bandymas buvo įrengtas sodo sklypelyje. Pavasarį žemė įdirbta kastuvu. Mėšlas įterptas kastuvu 40 t ha-1 norma. Bulvių veislė „Rosela“. Pasodinta rankomis išmėtant bulves į padarytas vagutes. Bandymo bulvės buvo suskirstytos po dvi vagas purkšti ekstraktais, ir kontrolei. Purkšta pušų ir gvazdikėlių ekstraktų tirpalais. Dėl meteorologinių sąlygų (lietaus) bulvės jau buvo 10 – 15 cm kai pasirodė pirmieji kolorado vabalai. Po purškimų buvo stebima ar sumažėjo kolorado vabalų ir vertinama koks ekstraktas labiausiai paveikė kolorado vabalus. Nukasus bulves jų gumbai buvo sveriami. Nustatyta vidutinė vieno bulvių kero gumbų masė gramais, bei vidutinis gumbų skaičius vienetais. Purškiant buvo naudojami skydai, kad apsaugoti kitus variantus. Gumbų masė nustatyta svėrimo metodu. Purkštų pušų ir gvazdikėlių ekstraktų tirpalais bulvių derlius buvo lyginamas su kontroliniu variantu. Prieš pradedant vykdyti tyrimus, gegužės mėnesį buvo bandoma, kurią koncentraciją pasirinkti tolimesniams tyrimams (dėl vietos stokos ir bandymų vykdymo sudėtingumo). Preliminarūs tyrimai buvo atliekami dvejose vietose: Vokėje ir Šilalėje. Prieita nuomonės, kad 1% koncentracijos tirpalai mažai efektingi. Tuo tarpu... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Object of work – cultivation of ecologic potatoes, in which was found colorado beetles. Purpose of work – to estimate pine and clove extracts influence for pest (colorado beetles) into potatoes crops. Methods of work – the research had been conducting at 2007 y.. The seed of potatoes was cultivating in brightly and warm place for twenty days. The test was made in plot of garden. The soil was diged by spade on springtime. Manure was spread by spade 40 t. to hectare norm. The sort of potatoes „Rosela“. The potatoes was plant into furrows by hands. The researching potatoes was plant into to furrow, for sprinkling by extracts and for control. The potatoes was sprinkled by pine and clove extracts. Because of rain potatoes already was 10-15 cm. high, when appear first pests. After sprinkling was looking, if populiation of insects decrease, and testing which of extratcs was more effective. After potaoes gathering, it was weigh. Was find out a average weight of one potatoes growth bush, and average number of potatoes into bush. Was used screen to protect other rows of potato. The weight of lumps was found by weigh method. The harvest of sprinkled potatoes was compare with control rows. Before tests, was testing which concentration of extract to choose for research ( because of shortage of time, and complication of research). The research have been done in to place: Voke and Silale. I come to concliusion that 1% concentration extract aren‘t efective... [to full text]