Yoav Ruda - Bloody Red Meat (Tohu Visual Essay)
Channel: Tohu Magazine
Date: 2020-04-29

Yoav Ruda, Bloody Red Meat, 2020, video, 3:00 min

Wiki information, personal insights, spoken word poetry, rap, and video samples coalesce into this audiovisual essay by Yoav Ruda. Dealing with cultural and social evolutions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the artist mixes all of these ingredients to portray the critical moment we live in, and to call for positive action.


Bloody Red Meat
zoonotic origin of pandemic 

The taste of life is vibrations and beat
The smell of death is bloody red meat.

On Sunday, November 17, 2019, 
A 55-year-old man contracted the disease for the first time.

I went down to the market to get me a bat,  
In retrospect, it was a lousy bet.
I went down to the market to get me a Pangolin, I never thought it would make me feel suffocating.

A virus can be harmless to one species
and fatal to another. 
Bats and Pangolins cope with the CoronaVirus just fine, apparently we don’t.

dogs and Cats, 
chickens and rats,  
Unfortunately, these ain't no pets.

The taste of life is vibrations and beat,
The smell of death is bloody red meat.
 
We can’t ignore the fact that this crisis forces us
to put an emergency break on our unsustainable habits, primarily the fossil fuel burning. 

A butterfly flutters its wings in the Abyssinian, causes a hurricane in the Caribbean
A Man ate a bat in Hubei,   
causing a shutdown in Bombay. 

It feels like an anonymous conspiracy, no flights, 
less cars, the birds are singing, the butterflies are thriving, the air is clear, earth heals itself... 

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