Food & Feeling

Food & Feeling This day-long event aims to explore relationships between food and the senses. Although food is often connected to pressing issue of hunger and injustice, it can and should also be connected to a range of pleasures, senses of connection to groups, places and social history. Food taste is complicatedly linked to memory, olfaction, visuality and the tactile. All this means that food can be explored in evocative ways not only through language, but also through, for example, installations, visual art, dance, mime, demonstrations and performance.

 

 

This day-long event aims to explore relationships between food and the senses. Although food is often connected to pressing issue of hunger and injustice, it can and should also be connected to a range of pleasures, senses of connection to groups, places and social history. Food taste is complicatedly linked to memory, olfaction, visuality and the tactile. All this means that food can be explored in evocative ways not only through language, but also through, for example, installations, visual art, dance, mime, demonstrations and performance.

 

 

Join us for a festival of activities and the launch of the book published by ESI:

‘Thinking Through Food in South Africa: Embodiment, Performance and Representation’
 

9 DEC | 09:30 – 15:30

 

66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock, Cape Town

 

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Or for more information, email: criticalfoodstudies@uwc.ac.za