Massia Residency Question

How is aerial art, food and feminism connected and what research can I develop from this?

Through my tutorial, the first presentation and feedback session I was confirmed of the idea that I have to deepen the connection point and make more explicit what I already found. I am exploring my body through the intersection of food´s materiality and aerial/ practice, restisting gendernorms. How is my body: female + androgynous. white, abled, lean. What does that mean to the research? How can I amplify aspects through the use of edible material and movement to criticise gendernorms?

AIM:

1.      converge food and feminism

2.      investigate how aerial dance engages with, challenges or reinforces gender norms and representations

3.      build my technical skills in aerial dance and food elaboration.

OBJECTIVES:

1.      Examine relevant literature for food and feminism

2.      Explore aerial art and gender representations

3.      Build a framework to connect aerial art and food through feminism

METHODS:

PaR

Impro + choreographic scores

Literature review

Collective cooking

Question: How can I deconstruct the technologies of aerial dance and food preparation to challenge gender norms?

Why? Because that’s who I am, trained in this technologies + practices pastry + aerial arts + feminist, formed also outside, personal idiosyncratic.  Formed me also outside this technologies

• gap: methodology that intersects the political, sensorial and theoretical through embodied practice. Aerial art and food as genderes technologies not explored together.

• theory: feminist reclaiming agency

  • feminist aerial works?

  • Elias canetti – Masse und Macht (power of food- mother)

  • gender performativity -butler

• artistic:

  • womb of fire Womb of Fire at the Playhouse in Durban

  • medusa´s statue Luciano Garbati

  • Drag creature https://www.jadervision.com/

  • (Tiamat goddess, Thunder Perfect Mind)

Urgency:

• personal: my practices as an aerialist and pastry chef as an AFAB body

• social:

• field: interdisciplinary approach