Tag: studio

Food of the future

Short term: 

http://time.com/3482452/future-of-food/ –> bugs, majority plant-based, vertical & indoor farms, in-vitro meat, rewilding of previously agricultural and pastural land, decentralisation of food and food processing = more local food.

I struggled to find things that project as far into the future as my work is starting to look, but these predictions for 2050 to the end of the 21st century can probably be extrapolated fairly sensibly 

History of diet:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/

–> if we go back to a more historic diet (less meat, more varied etc.) how does that change the way we source food? I can’t picture it being so industrial, especially when the experts are talking about how it will become more decentralised and local. How do we farm? We’ll be using ancient practices but will we develop new technologies to do so?

Mayan cacao effigy vessels – http://www.maya-archaeology.org/pre-Columbian_Mesoamerican_Mayan_ethnobotany_Mayan_iconography_archaeology_anthropology_research/Theobroma-cacao-beans_trees_plants_cocoa-chocolate_Maya-kakaw-pataxte_Verapaz-Peten-Guatemala-Belize-Honduras-Mexico.php

–> Cacao was like gold to the Mayans, as a food source and status symbol it was crucial – what food would be that important to society in 200 years or so? That would be the food that would have tradition form around it

“The Aboriginal Memorial is an installation of 200 hollow log coffins from Central Arnhem Land. It commemorates all the indigenous people who, since 1788, have lost their lives defending their land. The artists who created this installation intended that it be located in a public place where it could be preserved for future generations.” – National Gallery of Australia

https://nga.gov.au/aboriginalmemorial/home.cfm

—> preservation and presentation of communal knowledge, memory of what has been and passed continues on. Links to my idea for the ceramic/sound installation that preserves a cultural narrative

archaeology of the future

Things I’ve been reading on how archaeologists might interpret the things they dig up in the future:

https://eidolon.pub/what-will-far-future-archaeologists-think-of-our-papyri-8b391052f08d 

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151127-how-will-future-archaeologists-study-us

https://www.theepochtimes.com/what-might-archaeologists-of-the-future-think-about-us-professor-holtorf-imagines_1131558.html

Press announcement about the discovery of the Roman Mithras temple under the streets of London (there must be so much more that we’ll never find):

https://www.bloomberg.com/company/announcements/london-mithraeum-bloomberg-space-bring-roman-temple-mithras-life-new-cultural-experience-capital/

Photos from the opening night of ‘Magical Woman’ at the Paper Mountain Gallery in Perth. The exhibition examines ideas of gender and queerness

Top row: Natsumi de Dianous, Slime fantasy grrl, 2018

Middle row: Astro Francis, What do you think, 2018

Bottom left: Amy McGivern, Fembedded series [detail], 2018

Bottom right: Madonna figurine by unknown artist (left behind from previous exhibition), the artists elected to keep it as it fit within the concept

Process of the mask making since coming to Australia. I added feathers to my least favourite bit and after that felt a lot better about the mask as a whole

I ended up deciding against the leafy bits because once I’d added the feathers and faux fur the shape had changed too much so the proportions would have been wrong if I’d carried on