About this Event
Please join the Northrop Frye Centre and UTSC Culinaria Research Centre for a talk entitled "When You Smell Garlic It's Mustard Gas". A tasting of carbonated waters and foams will be part of the talk.
About the Talk
Lindsay Kelley and Astrida Neimanis have been gathering tastes and materials related to compressed gas, preservation with cans, and the everyday militarisms that nourish and contaminate us. The talk will draw on documentation of previous tastings as well as video and sound recording in Hawai'i, Kelowna, Chicago, and Montreal.
Astrida and Lindsay will be presenting at the Society for the Social Study of Science conference in a panel called New Books in ASTS.
Further reading:
- Neimanis, A. (2018). "Queer Times and Chemical Weapons, Suspended in the Gotland Deep." Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 5(1), 66-78. (https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33363)
- Kelley, Lindsay. “Invert Syrup, Feminist Snap: Anzac Biscuits and Feminist Resistance to Imperial Logics.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): Special Section: Domestication of War (https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38439).
About the Speakers
Astrida Neimanis is a cultural theorist working at the intersection of feminism and environmental change. Her research focuses on bodies, water, and weather, and how they can help us reimagine justice, care, responsibility and relation in the time of climate catastrophe. Her book Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology is a call for humans to examine our relationships to oceans, watersheds, and other aquatic life forms from the perspective of our own primarily watery bodies, and our ecological, poetic, and political connections to other bodies of water. Additional research interests include theories and practice of interdisciplinarity, feminist epistemologies, intersectionality, multispecies justice, and everyday militarisms.
Working in the kitchen, Lindsay Kelley’s art practice and scholarship investigate how the experience of eating changes when technologies are being eaten. Her first book, Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience (London: IB Tauris, 2016; reissued Bloomsbury 2022), considers the kitchen as a site of knowledge production for art and science. Her second book, After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts (MIT Press), claims digestion and metabolism as key cultural, creative, and political processes. Her next book, Baking Strange, is under contract with the University of Toronto Press's Culinaria series. This book emerges from an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2019-2024).
Event venue & nearby stays
Northrop Frye Centre (VC 102), 91 Charles St West, Toronto, Canada
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