The Dressing
Mixed Media
We are in dire need of innovation in food sustainability. For years, thousands of researchers and scientists have been telling us that we need to cut down on our meat consumption by a recommended 90% to preserve the planet for future generations. But, the meat industry is continuing to expand at a rapid rate due to increased demand, especially in developing countries. There are three main reasons why the meat industry needs to change for future generations: pollutants and contribution to climate change, global health, and global malnutrition/ hunger. While there are still many unknowns, cultured meat has been proposed as a viable way to change what people are given to consume.
The Dressing is a visual and interactive commentary on our own meat consumption. While present in the scene, there is an uncanny sense of nostalgia, as if it is a childhood memory. A smoky leather chair, an a-romantic TV dinner and a television playing a sinisterly euphoric ad. Meanwhile, ominous meaty structures loom around you. These structures are mostly hidden to bring awareness to how shielded the meat industry and slaughter houses in particular are.
This installation consists of three different parts working together in unison. There is the sculptural installation, a video playing on the TV and a microscope set up with glass slides.
The Dressing is a visual and interactive commentary on our own meat consumption. While present in the scene, there is an uncanny sense of nostalgia, as if it is a childhood memory. A smoky leather chair, an a-romantic TV dinner and a television playing a sinisterly euphoric ad. Meanwhile, ominous meaty structures loom around you. These structures are mostly hidden to bring awareness to how shielded the meat industry and slaughter houses in particular are.
This installation consists of three different parts working together in unison. There is the sculptural installation, a video playing on the TV and a microscope set up with glass slides.
I. The Installation
Multimedia Installation: 11 x 10 feet
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II. Notes: The Future Is Fake
Primiere
III. Post Cards From A Dying World
Photoshop
This image series consists of over 30 images created in photoshop and printed on transparency plastic. These prints were then placed on glass slides for viewing under a microscope.
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Abstract
We are in dire need of innovation in our meat industry. For years, thousands of researchers and scientists have been telling us that we need to cut down on our meat consumption by a recommended 90% to preserve the planet for future generations. But, the meat industry is continuing to expand at a rapid rate due to increased demand, especially in developing countries. There are three main reasons why the meat industry needs to change for future generations: pollutants and contribution to climate change, global health, and global malnutrition/ hunger. While there are still many unknowns, cultured meat has been proposed as a viable way to change what people are given to consume. Infatuated by this concept, I have chosen to interactively present pros and cons of the implication of cultured meat to educate the audience and allow them to form their own opinion on cultured meat in its beginning stage.
Project Description
Our current meat industry is not sustainable for a growing population. Throughout the past decade, the concept of an alternative meat source has begun to emerge as a viable possibility for the future of the meat industry. Cultured meat is meat that still comes from animal cells but is grown in large vats in a lab setting rather than a once living animal. In theory, if implemented world wide as the predicted 40% of our meat source by 2050, there would be many economic and resource related positive changes. For starters, we would be able to dedicate more land that was once used for cattle to growing other crops and water sources would have less contaminants. Not to mention that far less animals are slaughtered, 100% of the yield can be utilized, the risk of outbreak and the need for vaccinations against the flu are reduced. Ultimately, this product could lead to reduced world hunger.
Unfortunately, much of the population worldwide is unaware that there are some major flaws in the meat industry so there is no reason or incentive to change their current eating habits. There has been extensive research on how to present cultured meat as appetizing to consumers and ultimately convince them to choose cultured meat over conventional meat products.
The goal of my project is to visually present some of these pros and cons to educate the audience. This allows them to make their own educated decision on their opinion of cultured meat. I will put together an immersive exhibition for the audience to experience with all five senses. The experiencer will walk through a hallway-like space with massive meat like structures covered by plastic on either side of them. As they walk past these structures they will enter a space that has a trough on one side and a research desk on the other side. If the trough is looked into the viewer will see a bloodbath with a video projection in it. The bloodbath is jello which fills the room with a cherry candy scent playing into the dichotomy of “fake” meat. The research desk will contain both a microscope and a glassware laboratory set up. This location will contain the series “Postcards from a Dying World” viewed under the microscope and in the glass vials.
We are in dire need of innovation in our meat industry. For years, thousands of researchers and scientists have been telling us that we need to cut down on our meat consumption by a recommended 90% to preserve the planet for future generations. But, the meat industry is continuing to expand at a rapid rate due to increased demand, especially in developing countries. There are three main reasons why the meat industry needs to change for future generations: pollutants and contribution to climate change, global health, and global malnutrition/ hunger. While there are still many unknowns, cultured meat has been proposed as a viable way to change what people are given to consume. Infatuated by this concept, I have chosen to interactively present pros and cons of the implication of cultured meat to educate the audience and allow them to form their own opinion on cultured meat in its beginning stage.
Project Description
Our current meat industry is not sustainable for a growing population. Throughout the past decade, the concept of an alternative meat source has begun to emerge as a viable possibility for the future of the meat industry. Cultured meat is meat that still comes from animal cells but is grown in large vats in a lab setting rather than a once living animal. In theory, if implemented world wide as the predicted 40% of our meat source by 2050, there would be many economic and resource related positive changes. For starters, we would be able to dedicate more land that was once used for cattle to growing other crops and water sources would have less contaminants. Not to mention that far less animals are slaughtered, 100% of the yield can be utilized, the risk of outbreak and the need for vaccinations against the flu are reduced. Ultimately, this product could lead to reduced world hunger.
Unfortunately, much of the population worldwide is unaware that there are some major flaws in the meat industry so there is no reason or incentive to change their current eating habits. There has been extensive research on how to present cultured meat as appetizing to consumers and ultimately convince them to choose cultured meat over conventional meat products.
The goal of my project is to visually present some of these pros and cons to educate the audience. This allows them to make their own educated decision on their opinion of cultured meat. I will put together an immersive exhibition for the audience to experience with all five senses. The experiencer will walk through a hallway-like space with massive meat like structures covered by plastic on either side of them. As they walk past these structures they will enter a space that has a trough on one side and a research desk on the other side. If the trough is looked into the viewer will see a bloodbath with a video projection in it. The bloodbath is jello which fills the room with a cherry candy scent playing into the dichotomy of “fake” meat. The research desk will contain both a microscope and a glassware laboratory set up. This location will contain the series “Postcards from a Dying World” viewed under the microscope and in the glass vials.
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