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Performing the Edible -

Performing the Edible

Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability

Kristin Hunt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
250 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-88593-3 (ISBN)
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This groundbreaking collection explores food as an artistic medium and form of embodied knowledge at the intersection of performance and food studies. Drawing from a decade of collaborative research (2014-2023), it examines how food practices illuminate identity, culture, and sustainability in our complex world.
At the intersection of performance studies and food studies, this pioneering collection explores food as more than just a subject of study—it’s a medium of artistic expression, communication, and embodied knowledge. Drawing from a decade of collaborative work through the American Society for Theatre Research working group (2014–2023), this volume brings together diverse voices examining how food shapes and reflects our understanding of identity, culture, and sustainability in an increasingly complex world.

The collection stands out for its innovative approach to "thinking with food," moving beyond traditional academic analysis to engage with food as an active participant in performance and meaning‑making. Contributors explore how food practices inform our relationships with place, community, and environment, while addressing urgent questions about global foodways and survival. Through a combination of scholarly research and artistic exploration, these essays reveal how food serves as both a lens for understanding contemporary challenges and a tool for imagining new possibilities in performance, sustainability, and cultural exchange.

This interdisciplinary work offers vital insights for scholars, artists, and practitioners interested in the intersection of performance, food studies, cultural theory, and environmental sustainability, providing fresh perspectives on how food‑based knowledge and practice can inform our response to global challenges.

Kristin Hunt is Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Theatre in Arizona State University’s School of Music, Dance and Theatre. She is the author of Alimentary Performances: Mimesis, Theatricality, and Cuisine (Routledge, 2018) and Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era (Routledge, 2023).

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Shopping List

Chapter 1: Introduction

Kristin Hunt

Mise en place

Chapter 2: Four Gastro-biographies, Four Recipes and a Lonesome Banquet: Instructions for Cooking and Ingesting Two Philosophers and Two Political Leaders On Your Own

Athena Stourna, with gastro-biographical recipes by Hara Yiannakopoulou

Setting the Table

Chapter 3: Culinary Canopies and the Sanitized Street

Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson

Chapter 4: “Edifying Punch and Brandy”: Performing Food and Digesting Identity in Early Modern English Encounters

Eunwoo Yoo

Amuse Bouche

Chapter 5: Piles of Rice

Robert Farid Karimi

Service

Chapter 6: Eating and Feeding Made Strange: Three Event Scores for the ICU

Gabrielle Sinclair Compton

Chapter 7: Communion of a Bowl of Seaweed Soup with Familiar Strangers: from Mukbang to Live Performance in the Miyeokguk Project

Jisun Myung

Sorbet

Chapter 8: Performing the drinkable: manifesting a wine’s terroir in performance

Krysta Dennis and Roanna Mitchell

Degustation

Chapter 9: Feeding/Eating the Other: A journey through Entrails

Thalia Hoffman

Chapter 10: Culinary Creativity: Personal Taste, Deconstruction, and Food Design

Paul Geary

Entremets

Chapter 11: Becoming with Wheat, and Other, More-Than-Human, Others

Amanda Couch

Digestion

Chapter 12: A Taste for Snow Eggs: Edible Reenactment with the Black Pot Supper Club

Elizabeth McQueen

Chapter 13: From Food Parcel Recipes to #Foodbankhauls: Performing Digital Culinary Activism in an Age of Food Crisis

Jenny Lawson

Chapter 14: The Kelp Cure: More-Than-Human Dramaturgy with Seaweeds

Sarah Blissett

Mignardises

Chapter 15: Delectable Viewing: Baking, Spectatorship, and Digital Theatre

Kelley Holley

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.12.2025
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo 20 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Technik Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10 1-032-88593-9 / 1032885939
ISBN-13 978-1-032-88593-3 / 9781032885933
Zustand Neuware
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