PIND (Punk is not dead) at motoco

PIND is kicking off its new season at Motoco (Mulhouse) on November 1, with a day titled “United by Wine: Punk, Food and Consumption,” held alongside the BRUT(es) natural wine fair.

This thirty-ninth meeting, organized by CESR and THALIM in partnership with Motoco, is part of the PIND research project (Punk is not dead. A history of the punk scene in France, 1976–2016), supported by DRAC Île-de-France, the CNRS (80|PRIME), and the ANR as part of the PSIND project (Punk sound is not dead, ANR-24-CE38-4175-01).

From the punk omelet hastily eaten at the Mont-de-Marsan festival in 1977, washed down with Valstar (“the beer of stars”), to the principles of eating well and eating healthy—what story can the punk scene in France tell us? What changes can be identified in relationships to drinking and eating, and even to forms of substance consumption that accompanied the emergence and explosive energy of punk?

Over nearly half a century, punks of all kinds have consumed and sung about, at times, the urgency embodied in proudly claimed junk food and unrestrained alcohol use—a kind of food-related No Future opening the doors to artificial paradises—and at other times resistance to industrial order and the harmful effects of intensive agriculture. They have advocated sobriety, frugality, and—long before the rise, trend, and commercialization of organic food—the return to protected nature and mindful eating.

The straight edge generation and forms of activism born from punk helped drive the rise of resistant positions (antispeciesism, veganism), which in turn defined ways of living rooted in an ethic of “punk responsibility,” far from the original destroy credo.

This day will therefore examine these positions, their histories, and their meanings—both in creative practices (musical, artistic, culinary) and in the roles assumed by musicians, audiences, artists, creators, farmers, winemakers, restaurateurs, and others—exploring what it means to call oneself or feel punk, and how these choices translate into acts of production and consumption, between no-future mantras, reinventions, and sustainable futures.

To learn more about PIND: https://pind.univ-tours.fr/