MANIFESTO
(Engineered Fruit) 2011
Duration- 2 minutes 45 seconds
Computer generated video - 3D graphics, physics simulation.
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| “The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck." |
| Manifesto explores the enterprise that aims to modify and engineer reality as well the environment to suit our constructed ideas of perfection- from plastic surgery to genetic engineering. The video intimates the unanticipated returns such ventures bring into our experience of the world. |
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| The video projection on a matt black screen is a looped narrative depicting a pear (an engineered GM fruit) being revealed from under a silken shroud. The fruit then splits open to momentarily reveal its core of skull seeds, before falling off to land on the soil below... |