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[Edward Whittall]

*Open Kitchen: Crossing Boundaries with Food and Performance*

 Call for Participants – CATR-CAFS Curated Paper Panel. CATR/CAFS 2014,
Brock University

Food is a “boundary object,” one that both borders and transects much of
our lived and academic experience. By occupying these *between* 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.

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):


 - Non- human animal performance and food consumption/presentation

 - Performance Ethnography

 - Performance Art

 - Geographies of consumption and production

 - Display and intermedial discourse

 - Food, Spectacle, and Urbanity

 - Food, perfomativity, and theatricality


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 *Pecha Kucha *sessions, and the *Exploration
Gallery *which is to be curated by David Szanto, co-curator of this panel.


We invite paper/praxis/performance proposals of 250 words for *Open Kitchen* to
be submitted to Edward Whittall at ewhittal at yorku.ca 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.


Submissions to CAFS sponsored sessions and performances must be made
according to the guidelines found in the CFP for CAFS.



Edward Whittall

York University, Toronto

ewhittal at yorku.ca


David Szanto

Concordia University

dszanto at iceboxstudio.com
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