
Seer as Seen: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of reversibility applied to food-art
Paper presented at Higher Degree Research Conference (Panel 4), UNSW Art & Design, 4 September 2018. Abstract: This PhD research addresses modern and contemporary practices of food-art, analysing the rationales and aspirations that motivate artists, past and present, to incorporate edible materials into art. To do this, the project investigates philosophical debates regarding hierarchies of the senses,...