Is Food Resistance? Sri Vamsi Matta on Caste and Cooking

Caste doesn’t just decide where you live or who you marry. It decides what you eat and who you eat with. In 'Come Eat With Me', Indian artist Sri Vamsi Matta turns a communal meal into an act of resistance. Through shared eating, he challenges centuries-old ideas of purity and pollution and rehumanises the Dalit experience beyond pity or pain. Can a meal break caste? Vamsi sits down with Dilpreet Kaur Taggar in our Sydney studios to unpack. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube.

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Presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre and H_ME W_RK. The Australian tour and residency of Come Eat With Me is supported by Arts House (VIC) and Campbelltown Arts Centre (NSW), and made possible by the Nagarajan-Lew Fund for independent artists.

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