Free Lunch with the Stench Wench: towards a synaesthetics of poverty and shame in Catherine Hoffmann’s performance
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Kokoli, A. 2018. Free Lunch with the Stench Wench: towards a synaesthetics of poverty and shame in Catherine Hoffmann’s performance. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 33 (3), pp. 485-499. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12399
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Title | Free Lunch with the Stench Wench: towards a synaesthetics of poverty and shame in Catherine Hoffmann’s performance |
Authors | Kokoli, A. |
Abstract | Catherine Hoffmann’s Free Lunch with the Stench Wench is a performance of abjection and self-abjection through poverty with an apotropaic aspiration: to shed the shame through sharing, and to create opportunities for a common social subjectivity that refuses to be silent about the struggle of its own creation and maintenance. Despite its title, Free Lunch does not come with a free lunch for the audience but creates an olfactory situation, through the on-stage cooking of hot chocolate and the presence of a dead rat, which compliments Hoffman’s narration and stage presence into a synaesthetic portrait of poverty and its psychosocial fallout. Drawing on the psychological foundations of shame studies, sociological approaches and social-theoretical responses to austerity and social division, I propose to examine the gendered embodiment of shame and its exorcism in Hoffmann’s performance, focusing on its physical codification in and beyond the visual. I explore the potential of shame to be re-weaponised against those who originally inflict it, and consider the shame that haunts every creative act, especially those with high political stakes: the failure to make a connection, the fear of being misunderstood. |
Research Group | CREATE/Feminisms cluster |
Publisher | WileyBlackwell |
Journal | Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy |
ISSN | 0887-5367 |
Electronic | 1527-2001 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 23 Jan 2018 |
11 Aug 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 27 Nov 2017 |
Accepted | 09 Aug 2017 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kokoli, A. (2018), Free Lunch with the Stench Wench: Toward a Synaesthetics of Poverty and Shame in Catherine Hoffmann's Performance. Hypatia, 33: 485-499. doi:10.1111/hypa.12399, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12399. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
Additional information | Volume 33, Issue 3 (Special Issue: Gender and the Politics of Shame) |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12399 |
Language | English |
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