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After eating : metabolizing the arts / Lindsay Kelley.
Summary:
"After Eating explores the emerging field of metabolic arts, practices which engage the materials and methodologies of not only food and ingestion but also digestion and metabolism"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780262545631
- ISBN: 0262545632
- Physical Description: xxvi, 222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Stuff Change: Body Image to Body Process -- Food Babies -- Eggs, Kale, Cancer, Fertility -- Adenosine Triphosphate: Metaphors and Materials -- Poop Circus -- Holobionts against Representation.
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- Art and biology.
Physiology in art.
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | N72 .B5 K45 2023 (Text) | 30244925 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
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An exploration of food, ingestion, and digestion in the emerging field of the metabolic arts.
Food appears everywhere in the arts. But what happens after viewers carry food away in the intestinal networks activated by social practice art, the same way digestion turns food into a body? Exploring the emerging field of metabolic arts, After Eating claims digestion and metabolism as key cultural, creative, and political processes that demand attention. Taking an artist-centered approach to nutrition, Lindsay Kelley cultivates a neglected middle ground between the everyday and the scientific, using metabolism as a lens through which to read and write about art.
Divided into two parts and full of playful chapter titles such as âFood Babiesâ and âPoop Circus,â After Eating investigates multiple facets of the sociocultural implications of body image and body process in body art from the 1970s to the present. By engaging the notion of âafterâ as an artistic homage or tribute, metabolism moves beyond the cell to transform into a method for responding to the most difficult cultural, philosophical, and political challenges of the contemporary moment. Metabolic reading rethinks feminist, queer, bioart, installation, and performance projects, providing artists, students, and teachers with new pathways into art theory.