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<p class=""><i>Open Kitchen: Crossing Boundaries with Food and Performance</i></p>
<p class=""> <span class="">Call for Participants – CATR-CAFS Curated Paper Panel. CATR/CAFS 2014, Brock University</span></p>
<p class="">Food is a “boundary object,” one that both borders and transects much of our lived and academic experience. By occupying these <i>between</i> 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.</p>
<p class="">Food and Performance scholars have long been focused on what Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has called the “conceptual convergence” of the two: <i>doing, behaving, and showing.</i> 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?</p>
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<p class="">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 <i>other</i>? 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.</p>
<p class="">As this panel is to be co-curated by CATR and CAFS (Canadian Association of Food Studies), we encourage participants to challenge the boundaries of academic inquiry as well. We encourage intermedial and multi-sensory presentations that are supported with a significant critical rationale. We are looking for ideas that represent an intersection of subjects, objects, and disciplines in order to begin the conversation of what food and performance research in Canada might be and might become outside the boundaries of the theatre and the social sciences. These areas could include (but are not limited to):</p>
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<p class=""><span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span>- Non- human animal performance and food consumption/presentation</p>
<p class=""><span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span>- Performance Ethnography</p>
<p class=""><span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span>- Performance Art</p>
<p class=""><span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span>- Geographies of consumption and production</p>
<p class=""><span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span>- Display and intermedial discourse</p>
<p class=""><span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span>- Food, Spectacle, and Urbanity</p>
<p class=""><span class=""> </span><span class=""> </span>- Food, perfomativity, and theatricality</p>
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<p class="">Also, attached is the CAFS conference brochure which outlines further performance initiatives that may be of interest to artist/scholars. Of special interest will be the <i>Pecha Kucha </i>sessions, and the <i>Exploration Gallery </i>which is to be curated by David Szanto, co-curator of this panel.</p>
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<p class="">We invite paper/praxis/performance proposals of 250 words for <i>Open Kitchen</i> to be submitted to Edward Whittall at <a href="mailto:ewhittal@yorku.ca"><span class="">ewhittal@yorku.ca</span></a> no later than January 15, 2014. Please feel free to ask questions and make inquiries as well as we are open to a wide array of interpretations and ideas.</p>
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<p class="">Submissions to CAFS sponsored sessions and performances must be made according to the guidelines found in the CFP for CAFS.</p>
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<p class="">Edward Whittall</p>
<p class="">York University, Toronto</p>
<p class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:ewhittal@yorku.ca">ewhittal@yorku.ca</a></span></p>
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<p class="">David Szanto</p>
<p class="">Concordia University</p>
<p class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:dszanto@iceboxstudio.com">dszanto@iceboxstudio.com</a></span></p><p class=""><br></p>
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