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Love Goes Through The Stomach
Dedicated to nutrition and the human attitude towards “production animals”, this collage provides disturbing insights into the behaviour of a Western affluent society towards animal products. The film starts with YouTube videos pointing to internet phenomena such as ASMR, Mukbang, and Let’s Play Videos. The experimental narrative perspective and precise picture selection are both humorous and bitterly truthful, showcasing destructive aspects of global consumer behavior.
Bio NEOZOON
NEOZOON is a female art collective. Its work is based on the principle of collage and investigates sociological questions about speciesism in the Anthropocene. Recontextualisation of found footage and/or YouTube material is a recurring element. NEOZOON´s work was exhibited at Centre Pompidou in Paris, at ZKM in Karlsruhe, at Kunstwerke Berlin and has also been shown at festivals in Oberhausen, Rotterdam, London and New York.
While we traditionally associate food consumption with satisfying basic needs, daily meal preps, awkward family dinners, or culturally rooted collective rituals and celebrations, the media artistic duo NEOZOON offers a darker and more bizarre depiction of human eating habits. Love Goes Through The Stomach compiles images of food as an obsession, fetish, or a source of emotional and sensual satisfaction. Once again working with YouTube-found footage materials, NEOZOON playfully sequences a choir of lonely fans of rustling packaging, ASMRish sounds of munching and slurping, discount hunters, aspiring chefs, or followers of online trends such as #whatieatinaday. As the selection includes carnivores only, Love Goes Through The Stomach quickly takes a disturbing turn—not only uncomfortably reminding us of the political implications of our dietary choices but also stylistically evoking body horror.