Lumpen Station
Lumpen Station
Lumpen Station
TERRA INCOGNITA — eggs and boobs, performance
49 minutes Posted May 4, 2022 at 10:00 am.
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Terra incognita, art-science fabulations, performance captation 
Eggs and boobs, performance by Maya Minder and Alexia Venot, with the participation of Emanuele Coccia and Lisa Jankovics, sounds by Kyoka 
The performance takes the form of a perfor- mative and participative dinner, where Maya Minder and Alexia Venot intervene, through their actions and the reading of texts, Ema- nuele Coccia as one of the characters of the fiction introduced during the perfomance ( Queen Egg ), sound artist Kyoka plays field recordings regarding the atmosphere of each chapter of the dinner ingredient. play a track at each stage of the dinner, according to each ingredient.
A fiction is introduced into the performance to make the reflection tangible.
In Eggies Island, the audience is led to be im- mersed in the role of Bowies, characters of the story, who come to enjoy a meal on the island. A series of different dishes and orders are brought to the audience, metaphorical ingredients of our sensual, regressive, erotic and fluid connextions : eggs, milk, eggplant, fig, rice, seaweed.
In its symbolic report, the food is jointly relayed to a nutritive act as to an erotic act, it generates semiotic confusions. The poetic language give access to a certain emancipation of the subjects with regard to the objects of desire and It acts like an emancipative agent to rethink the gendered realtions. The dinner acts in a subversive way of reappropriation of gestures, and generate a multiplicity of interactions towards the relation with the living. Body and food converge: eating and tasting call for one of the forms of sensuality, which can go as far as eroticism. The language is struc- tured around common vocabulary, "hot" "swallow" "cook" "lick" refers as much to the act of eating as to the sexual act. As Yvonne Verdier wrote, ethnologists have found a strong food symbolism in rituals whose function, in the final analysis, is to "regulate relations between genders". There is a certain ambiguity in the body or in what comes from the body. The egg is the birth in potential, comes out of the cloaca of a bird and its shape can help provoke female orgasms. One finds this refe- rence in the empire of senses : as if an interspecific orgasm was already made possible by the form of the objects which connect the beings in them. The breast is eroticized and sexualized while it is also an organ to produce milk, food for the baby, causing some pain to the woman when extracting the liquid. The fig is also a vagina, its fertilization is interspecific, because to be fertilized it requires eggs of the wasp, which imprisoned ends up dying, this reproduction induces an interdependence but also the death of the insect, when we eat a fig, we also eat the insect. The flowers offer themselves as much to the bumblebees, fertilized by the pollen. Birth, death, pleasure, pain, coexist in ambiguous forms where food is a metaphor, an object of desire, an organ of reproduction and a ressource.
We eat and we are eaten. How to approach this ambiguous relationship of bodies to reinvent the new semantics of sensuality with food ?
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