Blurred, Broken, and Bewildered: What Performing with Food does with the Lines Around Performance and Food Studies

Authors

  • David Szanto Icebox Studio Montréal (QC, Canada)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1913-5874/37401

Abstract

Discipline, authority, rigor, expertise. When it comes to food and food scholarship, how do we perform success? Does food present the same requirements for knowledge-making as the other modes of existence that we investigate? Or does it open up a space in which to challenge those requirements, make rifts in the academic fabric, and present tantalizing threads on which to gleefully tug?

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2018-04-01

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Szanto, D. (2018). Blurred, Broken, and Bewildered: What Performing with Food does with the Lines Around Performance and Food Studies. InTensions, (9). https://doi.org/10.25071/1913-5874/37401