Xiaoyang Meng


Information Feast

2022
Duration:0:40
3D experimental video



 (Cultural omnivore: In the context of globalisation, the cultural tastes of the upper class elite have shifted from a conceited and arrogant diet of pure or partial food to an omnivorous one. They have become cultural omnivores, preferring access to and appreciation of different cultural resources, challenging the old paradigm of "the refined and the vulgar" in understanding fun.（Richard A. Peterson and Roger M. Kern,2014,Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore）




We stuff the world into our mouths.

In this shadowless, transparent society, we are all ravenous cultural omnivores.

Liking is swallowing; saving is chewing.

We gorge on the philosophies of influencer gurus, just as we swallow lazy recipes for potatoes;

The highbrow and the lowbrow, the profound and the banal, lose their boundaries in absolute proximity.

Everything is deconstructed indiscriminately in the churning of saliva.

Teeth open and close mechanically, crushing the plurality of things, along with the "distance" that ought to exist.

There is nothing that cannot be digested, yet nothing is truly absorbed.






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