Experiencing the body: a transdisciplinary approach to Stephen King’s Thinner (1984)
Posted by Jessica Folio on May 29, 2014 in Dr Jessica Folio, Guest Blog tagged withAs I was listening thoroughly to the three artists Amanda Couch, Mindy Lee and Andrew Hladky circumvoluting over their personal corporeal experience in their group presentation suggestively untitled “On Entrails and Performances” delivered on the occasion of the “Body Horror/ Shapeshifters” conference held in Athens in November 2013, as I was integrating their critical perception of the digestion process through food and language and as I was pondering over the “spatter platter” (fig.1) quality of their puzzling works of art, a connexion with Stephen King’s Thinner emerged in