Project Development: Ideation and Base Concepts
Would there be anything to work on better than myself? After all, my "self" is the only thing that I am sure it is internalized and embodied in me. If there is something called core motivation, self is surely it.
Taking this along, I decided I wanted to reflect something I have been experiencing in my body. Which is the observable outcomes of the food we eat. These outcomes can be either psychological, physiological or neural. Its multi-faceted structure allows and creates room for fiction and speculation.
The dual feedback loop in the gut-brain axis, seemed like a good start to visualize the food-body relationship. What would disrupt its input/output system? What would we find if we speculated and/or created fictive scenarios about it?
My aspiration for abstraction and speculative realism is at the foundation of this idea. Obsessed with solving the problems of the "real world" in the past, I found myself slowly settling in the vast plane of object-oriented ontology and moving away from human-centered design.
So here is my pitch.
If what Graham Harman is right in saying that objects -whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human or non-human- are mutually autonomous and enter into relation only in special cases that need to be explained rather than assumed, then I guess that's what I want to do. Explain the relationship of the autonomous system that is embedded inside me. My gut and my brain.
Speculative design is also the aim in here, as Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby claims in their book Speculative Everything, I also want to pursue what is critical, rather than what is affirmative. I want to create problems, not solve them. I want to ask questions, I do not try to answer them. That is why I want my project to be merely a representation of my questions. A kinetic and pneumatic representation.
As time goes by, I hope I will better articulate my idea. But for now, here are some images and inspirations for what I have in mind.
