TAKEAWAY: TALES FROM THE FLAVOUR SUPERHIGHWAY

Marley Dawson, Keg de Souza, Gianna Hayes, Gillian Kayrooz, Zora Pang, Janhavi Salvi, James Tylor with Racha Abou Alchamat, Merlinda Bobis, Lauren Carroll Harris, Xinyi Lim, Irfan Master

Curated by Mariam Ella Arcilla and Denise Thwaites.

Presented as part of Canberra Art Biennial.

12 September - 24 October 2026
Exhibition Opening: Friday 11 September 2026, 6pm

Takeaway: Tales from the Flavour Superhighway is an artistic project that explores decolonial food sovereignty through the prism of takeaway cultures. Curated by Denise Thwaites (ACT) and Mariam Ella Arcilla (NSW), Takeaway will be a major program in Canberra Contemporary’s 2026 Artistic Program and the launch exhibition for the Canberra Art Biennial 2026. Positioned as a bi-state project between Eora/NSW and Kamberri/ACT, Takeaway comprises a year-long peer-to-peer artistic development period with a knowledge-sharing intensive in February 2026 at Magenta House on Gadigal, followed by another intensive in May 2026 on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country hosted by the University of Canberra. The project culminates in an energetic group exhibition at Canberra Contemporary and a roving program of art & food tours and activations on Kamberri as part of the Canberra Art Biennial from 12 September - 24 October 2026.

Image: Gillian Kayrooz, From The Palm Of, 2024, Two-Channel video, 1080p, 1 hour 27 minutes, still. Image courtesy the artist.