Vapour Meat [HP0.3.1]alpha
Essentials of a hyperdiet, 2018
Devon Ward & Oron Catts (US & AU)
Vapour Meat responds to a growing uneasiness with meat. The negative effects of meat industries have resulted in the rise of veganism, vegetarianism, ethical omnivorism and technological solutions like lab-grown meat, a.k.a. ‘clean meat’. Yet these responses result in an increasing distance between ourselves and the animal Other. Vapour Meat uses this scenario to posit a future in which we reach for the technological in lieu of the real.
BIO
Devon creates living and digital systems to explore notions of place, scale and identity. His work takes the form installations, sculptures, video, books and sound. He has exhibited in Australia, Japan, the UK and US. Oron is an artist who works with tissue engineering as an artistic medium. He is the director of SymbioticA, the Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts, at the University of Western Australia. He is considered a pioneer in the field of biological art and publishes widely and exhibits internationally. His work has been collected by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA).