"Food for Thought" Research Findings

 

"Food for Thought" Research Findings

Josie Ervin

Found between August 2nd-August 10th, 2024


  • Pepe Lopez, Various Artworks https://www.designboom.com/art/we-are-what-we-eat-un-united-nations-04-27-2016/ 
    • Article: “Artist focus on food safety for ‘we are what we eat’ exhibit at the United Nations”
    • An exhibition that develops attention for global food security, as well as improved nutrition through activism and education. His works of weaved baskets show multiple brands with chemicals and processed foods that are possibly toxic to millions of people around the world, including Pepsi, Starbucks, McDonalds, and more.
    • Medium: Textiles and weaving (3D work)
    • Motive Driven: When viewing these baskets on display, can that instill enough of a message to the audience of just how toxic the food or beverages are to consume in our bodies on a regular basis?
    • Image:

Artist: Pepe Lopez
"MacDonalds"
Year: 2004-2016
Dimensions: 39 in. in diameter
Medium: Guapisimas, Guapas Baskets and Acrylic Paint

  • Artists Unknown, “Disgusting Food Museum” https://lamag.com/pop-culture/disgusting-food-museum 
    • A museum with multiple exhibitions, challenging people’s notions of what is and isn’t considered edible. This encourages humans to begin moving towards environmentally sustainable foods for the future, with approximately 80 foods from moderately divisive local items to cultural delicacies are displayed, smelled and even tasted such as Mouse Wine, Kale Pache and Sheep Eyeball Juice.
    • Medium: Foods, juices and condiments (such as tomato juice with pickled sheep eyeballs used as a hangover cure)
    • Motive driven: How can these disgusting food alternatives persuade their audience into transitioning from their everyday foods to a seemingly healthier sustenance?
    • Image:

Artist: Unknown
"Fruit Bat Soup"
Year: 2018
Dimensions: Not specified
Medium: Bat urine, lettuce (Food)

  • Lucy Sabin, “Exhibiting toxicity: Sprayed Strawberries and Geographies of Hope” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14744740231183202 
    • An art exhibition that explored seasonal farm laborers’ exposure to strawberry herbicides in Huelva, Andalusia. The exhibition provided space in which configurations of matter, affect and atmospherics might allow contemplation of environmental toxicity, while also being a means of voicing the care, solidarity and hope enacted by affected communities.
    • Medium: Photography, prints, drawing
    • Material driven: How can photography and drawing captivate the toxicity that is spread in strawberry farms to the workers on a day to day basis?
    • Image:

Artist: Lucy Sabin
"Exhibiting toxicity: Sprayed Strawberries and Geographies of Hope"
Year: 2022
Dimensions: Not specified
Medium: Digital Photography

  • Anna Dumitriu, “Mysteries and Mycotoxins” https://annadumitriu.co.uk/portfolio/mysteries-and-mycotoxins/ 
    • Dumitriu has been working alongside the Applied Mycology Group at Cranfield University to develop and create an innovative new body of artworks around the theme of Mysteries and Mycotoxins. The project aims to raise awareness of their significant impact on human and animal health, as well as the food industry.
    • Medium: 3D (Pottery/Sculpting)
    • Material driven: How can these 3D renderings intrigue their audience so much to the point of understanding, educating themselves and avoiding these dangerous fungi or mold in the future?
    • Image:


Artist: Anna Dumitriu
"The Mysteries"
Year: 2022
Dimensions: Not specified
Medium: Digital Photography & 3D Construction

  • Justin Richel, “The Art of Industrial Food” https://www.edi
    blenm.com/the-art-of-industrial-food/     
    • Art sculptures and displays made entirely out of processed and industrialized foods. When Richel explained his process, he uses materials such as condensed milk, seaweed, chili powder, and cream cheese filling to repurpose food as art materials. After creating these pieces, he puts them on display, almost as an experiment to see if animals would be interested in attempting to eat the food-based projects. In most cases, they go untouched, since not even the rats are interested in these absurd food concoctions.
    • Medium: Various foods, acrylic coating/paint
    • Media driven: How do these food combinations create such an unpleasant experience for ants and pests smelling or observing these pieces? Will these lead to other discoveries about how atrocious these foods are for humans to consume?
    • Image:

Artist: Justin Richel
"Tall Order (Bologna and Cheese)"
Year: 2016-2017
Dimensions: 108x4x4 in
Medium: Silicone, Acrylic and Urethane Plastic

  • Various Artists, “Art Exhibition - Heart and Soil” https://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/resources/events/detail/en/c/895832/ 
    • An exhibition about the connection between contemporary art and soils that take place at FAO headquarters in Rome. Topics of discussion include putting soil at risk for erosion, soil sealing and contamination in many areas in the world. Embedding soils in art allows artists to provide a deep and transformational examination of the importance of soil in paintings, sculptures and mark making.
    • Mediums: Painting, drawing, 3D renderings (sculptures)
    • Motive driven: Can there be personal connections interlaced into these paintings and artworks, creating an even greater impact on the audience surrounding healthy soil for growing local produce?
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  • Dee Dee Maucher, “Sculpting Beneficial Succession” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772411524000302 
    • Contamination of Manhattan’s urban soils from toxic, industrial run-off, an unfortunate incident that occurred during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Due to this, dangerous levels of lead, arsenic, polychlorinated phenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were found in community gardens in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Maucher created the MoS (Masters of Succession) program, dedicated to the natural stages of recovery in distributed landscapes.
    • Mediums: Natural materials (mud, clay, water)
    • Media driven: Will these Mud Balls be sustainable to have long lasting impacts on the microorganisms and chains of events to rebuild these systems in local gardening communities?
    • Image:

Artist: Dee Dee Maucher
"Food for Us, Earth & Lifestyles"
Year: 2016
Dimensions: Not specified
Medium: Graphic Design



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