After Eating relocates digestion from the biological to the cultural, reading body art from the 1970s to the present through the lens of metabolism — a provocation that reframes how art enters, transforms, and exits the body.
About This Book
Food in art has been well documented, but Lindsay Kelley asks what happens after the eating — once ingestion gives way to the intestinal, the metabolic, the excremental. After Eating builds a serious theoretical framework around digestion and metabolism as cultural and political processes, not merely biological ones. Taking an artist-centred approach, Kelley stakes out the ground between everyday experience and scientific discourse, using metabolic reading as a method for engaging feminist, queer, bioart, installation, and performance practices. The result is a new pathway into art theory that takes the body — in all its inconvenient, generative complexity — as its primary site of inquiry.
Key Features
- 296 pages of theoretical analysis and artist-centred case studies spanning body art, performance, installation, and bioart
- Published by Random House US, ISBN 9780262545631
What You'll Discover
- How metabolism functions as a critical method for reading feminist and queer art practice, not merely a biological process
- The concept of "after" as artistic homage — a mode of responding to difficult cultural, philosophical, and political challenges through art
- The sociocultural implications of body image and body process in performance and body art from the 1970s to the present
- How metabolic arts cultivate a neglected middle ground between everyday embodied experience and scientific frameworks of nutrition and digestion
About the Author
Lindsay Kelley approaches art theory through the lens of nutrition, metabolism, and embodied practice, cultivating an interdisciplinary method that draws on feminist, queer, and bioart discourse. Her work develops what she terms metabolic reading — a mode of engaging with art that takes digestion and body process as serious cultural and political categories.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 296
- Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780262545631
- Publisher: Random House US
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Art theorists, performance and body art scholars, students and academics working across feminist and queer theory, and practitioners in bioart or social practice interested in embodiment and political readings of the body.