Midnight Ephemeral Talks Episode One

Anorexia Nervosa, Not About Food

In our first episode of Midnight Ephemeral Talks, “Anorexia Nervosa, Not About Food”, we (Alyssa and Somer) invite two friends, Bo and Langjie, to join us and talk about Food, Eating Disorder, various relationships between our body, the flowing or the lack of appetite, and food. The conversation starts with discussions about Somer’s recent live performance “Me and My Eating Disordered Body”, and goes on to inquiries about dieting body, fitness-obsessed body and other regulated bodies, the art of cooking/loving, the potential of different ingredients and so on.

This time, all of us speak (sometimes broken) Chinese, so our first episode is in Chinese. We provide you with English subtitles for key sentences, for a subtitle-included and speakers-visible version, please go to our Youtube Channel and watch/listen to our sleeping-aid podcast. Warning to those who are into Foucault, Deleuze and the notion “Becoming", this episode might be a bit exciting and thus a sleeping-killing pill for you.

Ephemeral Studio Berlin

And we got some quotations from this episode as a preview for you.

• The pleasure of food is abstract to you, whereas the hatred attitude towards food is abstract to me.
• My body has always been my tool, a container that aids my brain to carry out an intellectual life. And since I started the project “Me and My Ephemeral Bodies” , it is no longer a tool, it has become the protagonist.
• Metaphorically becoming plant, it is an attempt of the Body to escape from rational control, as the instinctive desires of the Body are overflowing.
• For both dieting or fitness, the common part of both activities is: Let the Body serve a specific purpose. However, the Body is not obligated to serve any purpose.
• Body is something perceptive. The relationship between you and food is itself a very private process. With repeated practice and dynamic balance, you gradually develop a kind of adaptive mechanism of your own.

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須臾夜談第一期

“神經性厭食症，無關食物”

在我們第一期的須臾夜談“神經性厭食症，無關食物”里，我們（Alyssa與Somer）邀請兩位朋友，博與瑯傑，加入我們，一齊談論有關食物，飲食失調（諸如暴食和厭食）等不同和食物的關係等等相關話題。這場對話從對Somer最近的一場名為“我與我飲食失調的身體”的實況表演藝術的討論開始，之後進入對於減肥、健身以及其它情況中被調控的身體的談論，最後，我們也談到烹飪的藝術。

此次，我們的談話用中文進行，我們會提供一些中英文參考資料索引和部分英文字幕。你也可以在Youtube搜索到包含字幕的Podcast的視頻版本。

須臾工作室

出自本次長聊的一些精彩語錄：

• 食物（的快感）對你比較抽象，厭食症對我比較抽象。
• 我的身體一直是我的工具，幫我的大腦進行智識生活的一個容器。 而從我做這件作品開始，它不再是工具，它稱為主角。
• 隱喻性地變成植物，是身體逃逸出理性控制的一種嘗試，身體一種本能的慾望的充溢。
• 減肥也好健身也好，都是讓身體服務於特定目的，但身體不需要服務於任何目的。
• 身體是一個感受性的東西，你和食物建立關係，本身是一種很私密的過程，在反復實踐的動態平衡中，你會長出一個自己的適應機制。