Abstract

In Global Performance Studies
and Performance Research

Introduction
Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson

Reflection: Beyond metaphor. Hunger and the response-ability of performance
Jazmin Llana

Food, Performance and Hunger
Richard Gough
Including a reprint of the article ‘Hunger and the future of performance’
Enzo Cozzi

In Performance Research

Global Action to End Hunger
compiled by Laurie Beth Clark
with content by Gastón Ares, Br Armin Luistro, Michelle Miller, Mpumelelo Ncwadi, and Matilda Baraibar Norberg

In Global Performance Studies

“Aqui plantamos sueños y esperanzas”: la experiencia de El Nido durante la pandemia
(“‘Here we plant dreams and hopes’: the experience of El Nido during the pandemic”)
a video by Alvaro Adib Barreiro and Mariana Meerhoff

In the first section, we offer essays that provide the context for our work. These include both essays that address the global contexts in which we understand hunger and the creative contexts in which we understand how artists have responded to it. Four essays from the context section will be published in both journals. In addition to the introduction and Jazmin Llana’s reflection, we have Richard Gough’s expanded conference keynote that takes us on a survey of efforts by artists, chefs and activists who respond to hunger both aesthetically and pragmatically. Gough’s essay begins with a reframing (and reprinting) of the aforementioned essay by Enzo Cozzi, which was a touchstone for many writers and presenters.

The final context essay also builds on a conference keynote in which five panelists (one of whom is the aforementioned Brother Armin Luistro) from different continents and varied professional expertise (history, natural science, social science, religion, farming) each focus on a different aspect of the hunger problem by responding to shared questions. The textual component of this essay (the revised staged dialogue) appears in Performance Research, while its creative components (a video by Alvaro Adib Barreiro and Mariana Meerhoff) is hosted online in Global Performance Studies.