Blood related - a Talk by Basse Stittgen
image: objects made from 100% discarded cow blood.
Basse Stittgen reveals a world through a lense of materiality. For this talk he will explore blood as a material beyond disgust and stigma.
There are countless notions and associations connected to blood, the most substantial being life and death, blood can symbolize both, and many worlds in between.
It tells a thousand stories, steeped in meaning and mysticism. Yet, the very real narratives of blood as a by-product and waste stream of the slaughterhouse industry, or the stigma attached to diseases transmitted through blood, remain largely untold. This talk will delve into those topics and explore blood as a material, beyond disgust and stigma.
The slaughterhouse industry is one of the most resource intensive in the world, yet it remains almost invisible - this disconnection makes it difficult to create a common ground to talk about the ethics of production and consumption. The work offers a platform for confrontation and reflection regarding our relation towards animals.
Practical
A talk in the context of Fiber Fever Summercamp 2024 : Exploring Biomaterials.
Open for participants and non-participants of the Summercamp.
Tickets: 8 euro
About Basse Stittgen
The work of Basse Stittgen (1990) is positioned at the intersection of design, art and material research. It stems from a fascination for matter, how it can be created, cared for, and questioned to unfold hidden narratives.
Basse’s work looks for ways how objects can mediate contemporary complexities by way of making invisible processes tangible. It puts things out of place and reshapes them through tools and processes that are developed from looking at the world through a lense of materiality.
He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017 and since then his work has been exhibited at the V&A Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Kunsthalle Basel and the 13th Shanghai Biennale of Architecture. It is part of the collections such as the MAK Vienna, the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, the Verbeke Foundation, and the Wellcome Collection.
deelnemers
Marta Boniakivska Inge De Bruycker Leonard De Causmaecker Nicolaas De Causmaecker Mattie De Jonghe Veronique De Mey Dylan De Rooze Helena De Smet Rein Dessers Maximilian Ernestus Jierui Fang Lola Ghysels Leonie Goejer Sophia Guggenberger Ellen Leemans Liesbeth Louwyck Dimitri Machas Marieke Maertens Geneviève marginet Laurent Marlein Frank Merkx Ralph Nafzger Laura Palau Barreda Bart Peeters Mahe Plancke Vanessa Schelstraete Heleen Sintobin Evi Swinnen Jeffrey Thielens Dirk van Gogh Stéphanie Vilayphiou Thomas Weyn