I’m not a huge high art aficionado, but at times it can be fun to visit a museum. Then there’s art I do not understand. At all.
Content note: this post contains one f bomb.
Case in point: the Ouroboros Steak, a project designed by Andrew Pelling, Orkan Telhan, and Grace Knight. On the Design Museum website, the project is described like this:
“Ouroboros Steak is a DIY meal kit for growing gourmet steaks from of one’s own cells. It comes as a starter kit of tools, ingredients and instructions that enable users to culture their own cells into mini steaks, without causing harm to animals.
“Commissioned for the exhibition Designs for Different Futures at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the project is a critical commentary on the lab-grown meat industry and critiques the industry’s claims to sustainability.”
Judging by the museum website metadata, the… product… is also listed for the 2020 Beazley Designs of the Year competition.
Err, what? Art? Product? Gourmet?!?!?!? What the fuck did I just read???
I… just… What?!? I can’t even decide whether the name is clever or artsy-fartsy pseudo-intellectual crap. Or whether the project might be just a boredom-induced crude joke??? If it were, it would be in highly, EXTREMELY poor taste to not take the health implications of cannibalism into account DURING a pandemic. Unless that’s supposed to be a part of the project???
Just can’t fathom this, in any shape, size, or form!
(WHAT?!????)
Image via Designmuseum.org
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