Start Date
January 2020
End Date
March 2020
Duration
3 months
Locaition
New Delhi, India
The intervention of technology in food production, acquisition and consumption in modern times has brought a major shift in food culture from being a very personal activity to something very mechanical and impersonal, making it a proponent to alienation among youth.
When we talk about such applications, the question that strikes me is that what does one have to give up simply to access food. In addition to it being a monetary transaction, one also has to give up their privacy. Our devices constantly collect data from our lives, conversation, location, etc. and sell it for all kinds of purposes. We talk about a product and the next minute we see an advertisement about it. I created a work in video format speculating what a device might be hearing, interpreting, researching and receiving.
In our collaborative work, Narendran and I told each other stories and narratives that have spanned three generations. In our conversations, we asked ourselves questions like what has been passed down, what has changed. Then we attempted to respond to these narratives by performative gestures, interventions into space and objects in the kitchen.