Free Lunch with the Stench Wench: towards a synaesthetics of poverty and shame in Catherine Hoffmann’s performance
Kokoli, Alexandra M. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3730-8570
(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)
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pp. 485-499.
ISSN 0887-5367
[Article]
(doi:10.1111/hypa.12399)
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Volume 33, Issue 3 (Special Issue: Gender and the Politics of Shame)
As of 2020, Hypatia is no longer published by Wiley. Current content can be found on the new publisher's website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Art and Design > Visual Arts > CREATE/Feminisms cluster |
| Item ID: | 23033 |
| Notes on copyright: | 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. |
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| Depositing User: | Alexandra Kokoli |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2017 15:17 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 19:42 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/23033 |
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