Fugitive Bakery's un-recipe-like recipe book

Abstract

Our reception and consumption of cultural scholarship often fall under a hierarchy of mediums, wheretext-based pieces are deemed superior to alternative and digitally porous forms of knowledge transfersuch as YouTube videos, social media content, verbal and gestural activations, and more. Thisemphasis is reinforced through traditional forms of pedagogy that operate in a one-way social orderbetween lecturer and pupil. This structural obsession toward text-exclusive, one-way pedagogicpractice limits the contaminative possibility of knowledge. The incorporation of public pedagogy in thecontemporary art domain enhances the potential for commoning. Likewise, an artist's increasingagency in initiating public pedagogy correlates with the expanding definition of what a contemporaryart initiative can be.Fugitive Bakery is a concept bakery that invites its collaborators to share their personalresponses to and interpretations of scholarly and non-scholarly texts with Anathapindika Dai and LizaMarkus—collectively known as Dika+Lija—in exchange for handmade baked goods provided free ofcharge. In an anti-academic spirit, the duo ‘digest’ the books through baking and dialogue. In line withtheir anti-capitalist beliefs, they provide each Bake free of charge while resisting set menus and rigidworking hours. Through this, the duo aims to address untraceable productivities, abstract values oflabour, hoarding of resources, profit maximisation, greed, hierarchies of scholarly credibility, theinsatiable need for factual accuracy, and the bias of statistics, ego, and pride.