The exploration of alternative foodscapes is a clear attempt at relocalizing food in contrast with agro-industrial globalization and its environmental, economic and social unsustainability. Art has dramatically contributed with speculations on what has been called “survival food”. This paper analyzes three case studies: The Next Menu, a gastronomical art project designed to imagine a future supper and explore new or overlooked sources of nutrition to respond to climate change constraints; the De-Extinction Dinner by the Center for the Genomic Gastronomy, an experiment in cross-pollination of amateur science with multimedia art; Dana Sherwood’s work involving decadent cakes to feed non-human animals with the purpose to understand interspecies relations.

Utopian and Dystopian Meals: Food Art, Gastropolitics and the Anthropocene

Daniela Fargione
2019-01-01

Abstract

The exploration of alternative foodscapes is a clear attempt at relocalizing food in contrast with agro-industrial globalization and its environmental, economic and social unsustainability. Art has dramatically contributed with speculations on what has been called “survival food”. This paper analyzes three case studies: The Next Menu, a gastronomical art project designed to imagine a future supper and explore new or overlooked sources of nutrition to respond to climate change constraints; the De-Extinction Dinner by the Center for the Genomic Gastronomy, an experiment in cross-pollination of amateur science with multimedia art; Dana Sherwood’s work involving decadent cakes to feed non-human animals with the purpose to understand interspecies relations.
2019
N. 15
255
270
http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/4028/3666
Food Art, Anthropocene, Gastropolitics, Extinction, Alternative Food
Daniela Fargione
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