CATR CFP Open Kitchen: Crossing Boundaries with Food and Performance

[Edward Whittall]

Call for Participants – CATR-CAFS Curated Paper Panel CATR 2014, Brock
University, St. Catharines, Ontario. May 24 -27, 2014


Hello,


A final reminder that proposals are due January 13. This panel is
co-sponsored by the Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) concurrent
meeting and is in line with their deadlines. Please note that CAFS will
also be hosting *pecha kucha* sessions as well as an exploration gallery.
More information can be found in the CAFS CFP attached below. These have
separate deadline and submission rules from this call.


Thanks,


Ted



Open Kitchen: Crossing Boundaries with Food and Performance



Food is a “boundary object,” one that both borders and transects much of
our lived and academic experience. By occupying thesebetween spaces, food
offers opportunities for bridging and/or blurring epistemic and ontological
divides, for underscoring the doing/making aspect of research, and for
decentering the singular actor in research and performance milieus and
refiguring them as diffuse yet interconnected congealments of human and
non-human agency.

 Food and Performance scholars have long been focused on what Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has called the “conceptual convergence” of the
two: doing, behaving, and showing. While the discourse has been rich, it
has yet to mature as a legitimate and active sub-field of Performance
Studies. This should not be surprising given the deeply rooted and
important relationship that Performance Studies bears to modern Theatre
Studies. But, as Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has argued, the divide between food
consumption and theatrical space is a very modern construction. We ask: How
might we trouble these boundaries?


We invite scholarship that highlights some of the ways in which Performance
Studies and Food Studies both occupy similar scholarly spaces of
thinking-doing, as well as the value that each realm has in interpreting
and interrogating the other. How can such work support reconfigurations of
power and social or political boundaries? How can the materiality of food
and the built environment help us reimagine our relationship with
the other? What might performances with and on food reveal about the nature
of our individual and collective identities, as Canadians, as eaters, as
researchers? This panel offers an opportunity for scholars of any
discipline to reimagine the contours of food and performance, not as
homogenous and bounded disciplines, but as dynamic constellations of
scholarly practices.




Paper proposals should not exceed 250 words and should be emailed to
ewhittal at yorku.ca. Please indicate any audio-visual, or culinary,
technology needed for presentations.
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