Consumed Body Purification System: Meditation for the Consumed (2018) - Sydney Mills
Channel: Sydney Mills
Date: 2022-04-27

The Consumed Body Purification System: Meditation for the Consumed, 2018

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Mills's CONSUMED is an art project centered on a fictional product called The Consumed Body Purification System.  The product is a kitchen countertop appliance that brews a meal-replacement drink of its owners’ cloned and liquefied biomass, speculating a future where auto-cannibalism is the diet of choice for the health-conscious consumer. Satirizing recent trends in wellness, CONSUMED ruminates on the use manipulative advertising tactics fueled by the neoliberal capitalist machine, which has repositioned human bodily wellness as a commodity as opposed to a human right.

Video by Sydney Mills
Score by Parches & Tim Tsang