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FOOD ISSUE Food Futures Martí Guixé
Faux Food Coffee Therapy Tapas art
INQUIETA M A G A Z I N E E D I T E D I N G E T A F E • S PA I N
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INQUIETA Welcome to the second issue of INQUIETA magazine. The singular goal we have set for ourselves for INQUIETA is to take art from its pedestal to make you think, object, laugh, and most of all, feel. We invite you, dear reader, to review, browse, save, edit, delete, eat, spit at, enjoy, be disgusted or titillated by this issue. INQUIETA magazine will appear every four months in English, Spanish and German. It is part of CULTURA INQUIETA, the platform for music and the arts. To join the family, participate in the discussion, or simply to see more on arts & culture please visit us on Facebook or on our web site: www.culturainquieta.com. We love feedback! So don't be shy. Cheers.
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S A P A T T R A Bite-sized art and design.
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Lunch bag by the.
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Bananas by Natalia Lach-Lachowicz
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Fried egg by Tjalf Sparnaay
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Mixed vegetables by Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann
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Pancakes by Stephen Wildish
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English breakfast by Genesis Breyer
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Glazed donut by Bruce Lowell
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Hamburger by Olle Hemmendorf
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Kiwi by Akiko Ida & Pierre Javelle
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Fish by Nir Adar
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Brownie by Filippo Ioco
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愛の真空パック
FLESH LOVE by Photographer Hal
In a eccentric and intriguing series, Japanese artist Photographer Hal recruits couples at underground bars in Kabukicho and Shibuyatook, Tokyo, to vacuum seal and capture them on camera. The result is a collection of intimate moments, bizarre, fresh and ready to go. Presenting the lovers like packed meat or candy, Hal plays with the aesthetics of the ubiquitous world of consumption, but brings it to life with his subject's bold personalities. A beautiful tribute to the mysterious microcosms of love.
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faux food Sarah Illenberger German artist Sarah Illenberger's visual art is an homage to our every-day material culture. Manipulating common items such as paper, fruit and wool with great detail, she constructs playful and appealing images that reveal the essence of familiar and iconic concepts. Her analog arts-and-crafts approach offers a truly refreshing escape from a visual landscape saturated by "photoshopped" imagery.
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Chili con Carne
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Watermelon Rain
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Fruit of the Boom (Granate)
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Canned Meat Collages
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Duftpyramiden - Perfume Charts
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"There was art before him [Caravaggio] and art after him, and they were not the same." Robert Hughes
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Rem van den Bosch Sex, life, death, food - in front of Dutch artist Rem van den Bosch's lens, they all come together. His work features models interacting with organic matter found near his home in Oranjestad, Aruba. Exploring human behaviour, consumerism and social censorship, van den Bosch's photographs have the sleekness of fashion ads but beyond that are kinky, provocative, and slightly disturbing.
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Anton Kuster's Look Inside the Yakuza After months of negotiations, Belgian photographer Anton Kusters spent two years with one of Japan's most notorious Yakuza gangs; known for their brutality, tattoos and strict code of honour. The result is a stunning and intimate visual account of the life inside this unaccessible subculture - from their business meetings, bath houses, night clubs, and even funerals. 31
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Agricult
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Agricult (I Shit On The World)
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Siamese Dreams
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Performance to denounce the consumption of meat in Barcelona, Spain. By AnimaNaturalis.
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Food Design “Brilliantly simple ideas of a curious seriousness” is how the Catalan Martí Guixé describes his work. His selfassigned label of an "ex-designer" already hints that his work doesn't intend to add to the endless variations of applied design styling. Instead, he creates edible products that are ergonomic, interactive and visionary, that - if you can see beyond the humour - offer a rich commentary on our relationship with food and consumption, unbiased by nostalgia.
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“A food designer is somebody working with food, with no idea of cooking.” Inga Knölke
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7-Step Cookie Cookie with decoration that indicates how to bite it. Autobahn Cakes Cookies for eating while driving with tyre print relief on them. Fortune Cookies Cookies that tell your fortune in breaking them. A more contemporary system than the Chinese one because you can try to influence your fate by trying to look for lucky areas or to avoid bad luck areas. Flavoured Stamps Stamps with food images on one side and with the flavour of the imaged food on the other. A wine bottle to remember the name of the wine Hands-free Lollipop Olive Atomic Snack Three-dimensional tapas, in the shape of atomic models.
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The pie graphic indicates the ingredients of the cake in percentages.
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Plato combinado. System to combine food ingredients along genetic theories. The four variables are sea, land, carbohydrates and vegetables. They are combined mathematically. Spamt (short for: és pà amb tomàquet) kit. The Catalan bread with squeezed tomato, salt and oil, with a universal format.
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Women & Food by Lee Price Calm, intimate and uncomfortably insightful is what New Yorker artist Lee Price' paintings feel like. Taking a voyeur's perspective, they offer a glimpse into the complicated intersection of women and food. In her work, mostly self portraits, food becomes a sort of distraction, an escape. Price delicately explores body image and our cultural relationships with food, revealing the dissonance between the conditioned female tendency to nurture others whilst exercising restraint and sacrifice regarding their own needs. It is as if she was inviting the viewer to witness moments of "secret consumption" by women who are socially instilled to hide their appetite uncensored and real.
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99 cents by Andreas Gursky
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Food Futures How will emerging technologies alter our relationship with food? A critical point of view on what's ahead.
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MRI steak by James King
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Dressing the Meat of Tomorrow, by James King What if the meat on our plates doesn't come from farms, but instead is grown in labs? Tissue engineering has now made it possible that any kind of meat can be grown in a petri dish, without the expense and cruelty of rearing the whole animal. British speculative designer James King investigates how we might choose to give shape, texture and flavour to this new sort of food in order to better remind us where it came from. He imagines mobile unit that scours the countryside looking for the most beautiful examples of cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock. Once located, the creature is scanned from head to toe, creating accurate cross-sectional images of its inner organs. The most interesting and aesthetically pleasing examples of anatomy are used as templates to create moulds for the in-vitro meat (we wouldn't choose to eat the same old boring parts that we eat today). The result is a satisfyingly complicated and authentic form of food.
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Lab-grown meat could be shaped arbitrarily, following nutritional, functional, ergonomic, or aesthetic criteria.
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Foragers: Designs for an Overpopulated Planet, by Dunne & Raby What if we could extract nutritional value from non-human foods using a combination of synthetic biology and new digestive devices inspired by digestive systems of other mammals, birds, fish and insects? The world is running out of food – we need to produce 70% more food in the next 40 years according to the UN. Since governmental- or industry-driven initiatives have yet to show any effect on human behaviour, could we take it upon ourselves to evolve into a more sustainable species? Dunne & Raby think so. They imagine a group of people that takes their fate into their own hands and starts building DIY devices: the foragers. They use synthetic biology to create “microbial stomach bacteria�, along with electronic and mechanical devices, to maximise the nutritional value of the urban environment, making-up for any shortcomings in the commercially available but increasingly limited diet.
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Synthetic biology could make it possible for humans to digest and make use of ubiquitous resources such as algae. 71
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In a DIY evolutionary process, the foragers could create various processing & digesting devices best suited to their environment. 75
Tactile Entertainment, by Min Su Kim What if in the future, the entertainment value of food surpasses its nutritional value? In modern society, the notion of food as a mere ingestible substance is already blurred: The value of food is often not just to simply supply the human body with sufficient nutrition but also to offer entertainment and pleasure. In Designer Min Su Kim's scenario, the tongue has evolved into an ‘entertainment receptor’. He proposes that synthetic biology could be used to create a new kind of amusement augmented by a tactile interaction with food. When ingested, the food stimulates the taste buds in such a way that the diner experiences an 'uncanny and intense pleasure'. Would you like to see a video of this scenario? Please follow the link below. http://vimeo.com/40261478
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Domestic robots with a taste for meat, by Auger Loizeau What if robots became self-sufficient? Design duo James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau believe that in the near future, robots will know how to get their energy by feeding off vermin like mice and flies. They created five semi-operational prototypes of domestic robots, each able to perform basic services. The technology, based on a microbial fuel cell, is already being applied at Bristol Robotics Lab, which built a fly-powered robot and imagines marine robots that could feed of plankton. Does that mean that robots could eventually emancipate themselves from humans? As Auger tells the New Scientist, "If the system fails, the grid goes down and all humans die, these robots could go on living so long as the flies don't go with us."
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Flypaper robotic clock: This robot uses flypaper as it’s means of entrapment. This paper is placed on a roller mechanism. At the base of the roller a scraper removes any captured insects. These fall into the microbial fuel cell placed underneath. The electricity generated by the flies is used to power both a motor turning the rollers and a small LCD clock. UV fly killer parasite robot: A microbial fuel cell is housed underneath an off-the-shelf UV fly killer. As the flies expire they fall into the fuel cell generating electricity that is stored in the capacitor bank. This energy is made available to the fly stealing robot. 81
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Lampshade robot: Flies and moths are naturally attracted to light. This lamp shade has holes based on the form of the pitcher plant enabling access for the insects but no escape. Eventually they expire and fall into the microbial fuel cell underneath. This generates the electricity to power a series of LEDs located at the bottom of the shade. These are activated when the house lights are turned off.
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Orgiastic Feasts
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by Monica Cook "Most of the things that I find really interesting or beautiful also can make me uncomfortable. For me, it's a very fine line between attraction and repulsion. It's a good challenge to try make things that are repulsive beautiful and make them palatable in a way for someone to see them with fresh eyes." Monica Cook
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COFFEE THERAPY by Marei Wollersberger Cups for paranoid coffee drinkers, jugs that resemble overbearing family members - designer Marei Wollersberger taps on her Austrian roots when designing the coffee break as a therapy session. In her collaboration with the 300 year old porcelain manufactory Augarten Vienna, her focus is not on functional or aesthetic criteria but on the rich symbolic value of table culture. In a dichotomy to uniform mass production, she imagines the porcelain manufactory as a therapeutic service provider who caters for conscious and subconscious emotional needs of their clients through individual products made to specification.
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Autobiographical Coffee Service Based on the principal of the family constellations, the coffee service enhances the therapeutic aspects of the coffee break with autobiographical props for conversation. Every item for the coffee service represents a person in the life of the owner: the passive aggressive father (coffee jug), the weak mother (milk jug), the unaware sister (sugar sprinkler) and the fragile protagonist himor herself (coffee cup).
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Empathic Coffee Cups Series of coffee cups based on psychological profiles. They show how the porcelain manufactory of the future take account of complex needs and ambiguities.
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ADD Cup Keeps the from coffee drinker suffering from attention deficit disorder focused by directing his or her attention on balancing the cup constantly to avoid the spilling of its contents.
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Performance Neurotic Cup Limits the coffee break of the workaholic coffee drinker to a specific time span in which the coffee has to be drunk before the cup’s contents are emptied through the funnel. The cup is available in two version: 5 minutes and 30 seconds.
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Editor Marei Wollersberger Publisher Juan Yuste Design Flat Estudio Press Susana Zorraquino www.culturainquieta.com www.facebook.com/#!/culturainquieta info@culturainquieta.com
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