Miniscule Bites: Narratives of Appetite in Gordon Matta Clark
Type: Essay Published in: Sluice__Magazine Link: Full article Year: February 2017 |
"Mavor’s description of the termite as distinctively tender is not only surprising but also – deliberately or not, I wonder – joins concepts of buccality (chewing, feeding, gnawing) with a certain loving affection and a sense of homing. Nourishment and hospitality are joined in an unsuspected agent; that of the insect, culturally branded as pest or plague, for which we bear none to little sympathy."
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