CAI Tong 蔡同 XIONG Tianqi 熊天琦 WU Yanyun 吴滟芸
Topic of our group is the food chain, and we focused on how individual organisms eat. The reason is that the act of eating links the various species, and the eating organ is an element that connects the different links in the food chain. So we hope that more people can increase their understanding of the food chain and become aware of and empathize with the other links in the food chain on our planet through feeling how other creatures eat.
We set out three possible applications of animal feeding organs in human life: using the ‘whale’s baleen’ to strain soup from a bowl of sweet dumplings when you just don’t want the liquid, using the radula to grind and scrape out kiwi fruit pulp when it is out of reach of the teeth and tongue, and using the mosquito’s stinging mouthparts to cut and peel open milk tea when it is difficult to open with bare hands. While in reality we humans can easily use straws, spoons and ladles for these purposes, animals have eating organs that can perform these tasks independently. Simulation and empathy for the vital organs that animals rely on for survival allows one to look beyond oneself and appreciate the unique capabilities and wonders of other creatures in the food chain that also live above the earth, having evolved through billions of years of superiority and inferiority.
Due to constraints, we have ended up with three scenarios of animal eating organs and how they are worn in video form, in which we also show some of the more unusual eating styles that were not produced due to time constraints. If we can do this offline, we hope to allow the audience to try out the three completed ‘organs’ and try to create special eating mouthpieces for more species.