The Gift of Cake
| Autor: | Jenny Lawson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts Process (engineering) media_common.quotation_subject Citizen journalism 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Work (electrical) Aesthetics 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Function (engineering) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Performance Research. 23:69-73 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9990 1352-8165 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13528165.2018.1533764 |
| Popis: | In this article I introduce a series of durational, participatory baking performances that I made between 2011-2013. Through a process of exchange, the audience were invited to share a memory about a special person, place, time or cake; in return, I baked their memories into unique cakes dedicated to those memories. With reference to these works I consider the potential for cakes in performance to develop articulations of generosity between participants, and map new avenues of exchange and commensality. Drawing on Edward Casey’s work on remembrance, I reflect on the strategies of commemorative exchange used throughout the performances. I problematize the commonplace function of the cake as a symbolic gift from the woman/mother figure, and discuss how the experience of baking together in these performances produced a web of spontaneous, multi-directional exchange between unknown givers and receivers. I argue that this process of exchange unsettled the cultural function of cakes as gendered, asymmetrical gi... |
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