Sweet-and-sour cane toad, cat consommé: Kirsha Kaechele serves up new approach to sustainability

Invasive species served at a high end banquet? Luxury goods made from vermin fur? The US-born artist’s new exhibition is confronting – and typically MONA

Kirsha Kaechele receives Guardian Australia in Cinemona, the plush cinema in the basement of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art. The artist is reclined on a velour sofa, dressed in a canary-yellow suit with hot pants and heels. Guardian Australia has been fashioned with a gin and tonic.

It’s an odd vibe when we’re here to talk about sustainability, but then, Kaechele doesn’t believe environmentalism need equate to slumming it, as evidenced by her deluxe new food and art compendium, which retails at $277.77.

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