Melting Moments: Bodies Upstaged by the Foodie Gaze

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

“…Certainly the use of food matter and food-related themes have presented themselves as valuable elements in performance art, theatre, and installational design works (Finley 2000;Howells & Hayman 2014;Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1999). In many examples, food is shown as itself performing, not as prop or set piece, but as a sensory body that actively (and unpredictably) participates in what transpires (Iball 1999;Tingley 2014).…”