Performance Research Volume 22 Issue 7
On Taste
Issue editors: Joshua Abrams & Richard Gough
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2017) 22:7
Taking as a challenge the proverb that there is no disputing about taste, ‘De gustibus non est disputandum’, On Taste brings together a variety of contributors to examine notions of gustatory taste in relation to performance and performativity. Ranging across historical cookbooks, contemporary performance art, home cooking and restaurant dining as well as across varied cultures from throughout the world, the articles in this issue upend relationships of the aesthetics of sense and sensibility, as a means of understanding varying practices through embodied cognition, asking questions about what epistemologies of understanding might gain from a serious contemplation of taste as and in performance.
Menu Dégustation – We insist the entire table participates : An introduction to On Taste
Joshua Abrams, Richard Gough
pp. 1 - 5
Devouring Theatre : After taste
Richard Gough
pp. 6 - 28
Dancing on the Tongue
Erin B. Mee
pp. 29 - 34
Eating Miss Julie : A Tasteful Account of Degustation and Performance
Kristin Hunt
pp. 35 - 43
Taste, Performed : M. Clavel and the Live Feed
Edward Whittall
pp. 44 - 47
Transformative Taste-Encounters : Contemplations on life, death and relational bodies at the (culinary) artist’s table
Jenny Lawson
pp. 48 - 56
Acts of Communion : Encountering taste in Reckless Sleepers’ The Last Supper
Michael Pinchbeck, Andrew Westerside
pp. 57 - 66
Tasting Celebrity : Gustatory Favourites of Celebrated Actor Folk
Ann Folino White
pp. 67 - 74
‘What Do You Taste Like?’ : Experiencing the other through the mouth
Paul Geary
pp. 75 - 81
Sweet and Sour and Super-t-Art : The conflation of gustatory and sexual appetites in Hannah Wilke’s art practice
Emily Elizabeth Goodman
pp. 82 - 91
Beyond Taste : Daniel Spoerri’s art of feasting
Dorota Koczanowicz
pp. 92 - 99
| taste | CHANGE | design | (artists’ pages)
Honey & Bunny
pp. 100 - 101
Eating Art and the Art of Eating : Unsettling the practices of taste
Laura Colebrooke, Mara Miele
pp. 102 - 108
The Chemical Senses in Art : Thinking beyond aesthetics
Ryan Bromley
pp. 109 - 118
In Bad Taste? Vomit and disgust in Paul McCarthy’s performances of the 1970s
Harriet Curtis
pp. 119 - 125
Kimchi and Other Others : kate-hers RHEE’s food performance in contemporary Berlin
Lily Kelting
pp. 126 - 133
Poetics and Pâtisserie : Multilayered performances of croissants
Rachel Hopkin
pp. 134 - 140
The Taste of Money (artists’ pages)
Spatula&Barcode
pp. 141 - 147
The Haram Halal of Food and Art in Pakistan
Hurmat Ul Ain
pp. 148 - 152
Trumping Taste : On the gustatory and the rise of the post-factual
Joshua Abrams
pp. 148 - 152
Outsider Art and Dominant Taste (review)
Junia Miranda Carvalho
pp. 162 - 164
Notes on Contributors
pp. 165 - 166
