Masterclass 'Food, Memory, Heritage' - Allen Weiss

FARO organise le vendredi 4 juin prochain, en collaboration avec le groupe de recherches FOST, une classe de maître avec Allen Weiss. Il est l’écrivain et l’éditeur de quarante livres sur la gastronomie, l’architecture de paysage, la théorie de la performance et l’art du bruit. Il a récemment publié ‘Le Livre bouffon (Le Seuil)’, son premier roman, et prépare actuellement la deuxième partie de son autobiographie culinaire, ‘La métaphysique de la miette’, ainsi qu’une étude sur le lien entre les jardins zen, la poterie et la culture culinaire. Il est professeur aux facultés en Performance Studies et Cinema Studies à l’université de New York.

Allen Weiss: “If I had to insist on a single principle in relation to the study of food, I would say that knowledge increases flavor. (This rings better in French: Le savoir augmente les saveurs.) Any text on food should have at least four requirements: it should make you want to eat, make you wish to read, make you desire to dine with the author, make you know thyself. In this context, I would argue that 'authenticity' is a term all too often misused and abused in the popular press, and misunderstood and depreciated in the academic milieu. I wish to propose a use-value of the term opposed to the often conservative, indeed reactionary use, and thus save the term for its inherent descriptive and theoretical values. For in all matters, I am vigorously opposed to any manifestations of lexical policing. Foucault spoke of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud as 'philosophers of suspicion'; in turn, I believe that we also need to be suspicious of those who are suspicious, and question the questioning of words. Thus I propose an examination of the origins and forms of my own taste, by means of examining my fetish dish – the stuffed cabbage – in the light of issues of tradition and innovation, dialogue and critique, authenticity and hybridity.”

Informations pratiques

4 juin 2010, 15h00 - 18h00, FARO, salle B, Rue du Poinçon 51, 1000 Bruxelles

Droits d'inscription: gratuit – vous trouverez la fiche d'inscription ci-joint.

Renseignements: Birgit Geudens, birgit.geudens@faronet.be