Performance Research Volume 28 Issue 7

How does performance studies understand hunger, as somatic experience, performative agency and socially produced cruelty? How can a performance approach help understand voluntary self-starvation and related phenomena? How can it critically engage with artistic representations of hunger? What creative interventions can be made in how hunger appears? Can it be engaged or deployed as well as represented? What can the arts contribute to hunger action?

Following the online Performance Studies international conference #27, ‘Hunger’, based in Manila, Philippines in July 2022, Performance Research and Global Performance Studies agreed to publish concurrent issues on the same theme. The two issues share introductory material and thematic organization; the main content is distinct yet conceptually connected. Both issues contain sections on Hunger Action, Self-Starvation, Representing Hunger, and Creative Interventions. Contents include material developed from conference presentations as well as substantial new work responding to the joint editors’ calls for submissions.

 

READ THE EDITORIAL AND ABSTRACTS ONLINE

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Global Performance Studies

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CONTEXT

 

2 Introduction

LAURIE BETH CLARK AND MICHAEL PETERSON

 

6 Reflection: Beyond metaphor. Hunger and the responseability of performance

JAZMIN BADONG LLANA

 

20 Food, Performance and Hunger

RICHARD GOUGH

 

47 Global Action to End Hunger

COMPILED BY LAURIE BETH CLARK WITH CONTENT BY GASTÓN ARES, BR ARMIN LUISTRO, MICHELLE MILLER, MPUMELELO NCWADI AND MATILDA BARAIBAR NORBERG

 

HUNGER ACTION

 

62 An Archipelago of Aid: Embodied hungers and networks of civic support in the pandemic-stricken Philippines

OSCAR T. SERQUIÑA, JR

 

73 ‘We’ve Never Done This Before’: Creative methodologies to food justice in crisis and beyond

JEN RAE

 

85 Hunger Action Now: The Art Relief Mobile Kitchen

JAZMIN BADONG LLANA WITH ALEX BALUYUT AND PRECIOUS LEAÑO

 

SELF STARVATION

 

95 Becoming Anorexia: The pathologization of ‘self-harm’ in performance

ADRIANA DISMAN

 

107 Political Paradigms of Hunger: Force-feeding and the choreography of carceral power

PATRICK ANDERSON

 

120 Lady Tyger: A legacy starved into existence

SARAH CREWS AND SOLOMON LENNOX

 

REPRESENTING HUNGER

 

131 A Different Hunger: World spectatorship and the violence of representation

ADRIAN KEAR

 

CREATIVE INTERVENTION

 

145 ¿Qué vamos a comer? Colombia's mojojoy!

ANA MARTÍNEZ, VERÓNICA MARTÍNEZ AND JUAN OCHOA

 

153 Nostalgic Hunger in Zhu Yu’s Eating People

DARJA FILIPPOVA

 

164 La Merda: On what you might need to do to be permitted to sit at the ‘winners’ table’. In conversation with Cristian Ceresoli and Silvia Gallerano

VANJA BALTIĆ

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REVIEWS

171 A Look at the Fasting People

DAVID BEN HALL

172 In the Event of an Excess (please don’t leave the theatre)

KATHARINA HEROLD-ZANKER

174 Revealing Interdependence

BETHANY HUGHES

175 Rich Archival Pickings

TRISH REID

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