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Edible Undercurrents: Food in Art History (online, 5-6 Nov 21)
Online, Nov 5–06, 2021
UCLA Art History Graduate Cohort 2020
Edible Undercurrents: Food in Art History (56th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Sympo- sium)
Food and its manifold associations are entwined with humanity’s visual and material culture; food is larger than life, pregnant with affect and meaning. Artists across time have deployed food as socio-political markers, expressing and probing stratifications of class, religion, gender and ethnic- ity. Food has fashioned tangible spaces for gathering and spurred creative exchange in ritual and performance—Stone Age painters willed their sustenance to existence on cave walls; the Chinese of the Shang Dynasty devised countless bronze vessels and utensils for divination; lavish Dutch still lives signaled the impending passage of time, with signs of decay testifying to food’s sym- bolic capacity. Food blurs the boundaries between art and life even today: ephemeral food-based media have tasked museum curators and conservators with accepting the unsparing nature of deterioration and mortality. The 56th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium, Edible Under- currents: Food in Art History, presents an opportunity to address these varying topics through a range of methodologies within and beyond the discipline of art history.
This virtual symposium will take place on November 5th (4-7 PM Pacific Standard Time) and November 6th (10 AM-1 PM Pacific Standard Time).
Both symposium sessions can be accessed through the following link (No RSVP is needed): http- s://ucla.zoom.us/j/95498510827.
November 5:
Student Speakers:
Mapping the Mobilization of the Watermelon Kimiyo Bremer, Cornell University
Curating Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Table Manners (2014-2016) Ifeanyi Awachie, New York University
Eat of this Bread: Saint Agatha’s Fragmented Breast as Spiritual Nourishment Alexandra Kaczenski, Case Western University
Fukuoka Masanobu’s Nature Aesthetics
Zachary Korol Gold, University of California, Irvine
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“We are consuming ourselves” – Neoliberal Feminism and the Exploitation of Emotional Capital in Lucy Beech’s Cannibals (2013)
Elisabetta Garletti, Cambridge University
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Deborah Krohn, Bard Graduate Center November 6:
Keynote Speaker: Artist Carol Goodden Student Speakers:
The Art of Cooking: Identifying Cookbooks as Performance Texts Hannah Kressel, Oxford University
Food Sovereignty and Survivance in the Art of Patrick DesJarlait by Willow Gritzmaker, Syracuse University
Exploring the Iconography of a 15th-century German Biscuit Mould and its Relationship with a Lost Painting Recorded by Philip Melanchthon
Lea Viehweger, Cambridge University
Methotrexate, Azidothymidine (A Prayer for Healing): The Rise of Technopharmaceutical Capital- ism in the Work of Sharona Franklin and General Idea
Adrian Deveau, Concordia University, Montreal
Delicious Deception: Trompe L’oeil Food in Spanish Golden Age Religious Painting Sarah Russell, Columbia University
“Starring Barbie as Karen Carpenter”: The Possibilities of Bulimia as a Theoretical and Visual Framework in Todd Haynes’s Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Grace Sparapani, University of Texas at Austin
For more information regarding presenters and abstracts, please visit: https://edibleundercurrent- s.wordpress.com/
Reference:
CONF: Edible Undercurrents: Food in Art History (online, 5-6 Nov 21). In: ArtHist.net, Oct 17, 2021 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/35100>.
