Learn to Love Your Meat Before You Meet Your Love
Raw meat as a metaphoric vessel for sensuality and sex is nothing new.
Raw meat as a metaphoric vessel for sensuality and sex is nothing new. Czech artist and filmmaker Jan Švankmajer made light of charcuterie’s carnal characteristics in his 1988 short film “Meat Love.”
One year earlier Canadian conceptual artist Jana Sterbak had offered a different take — one famously appropriated by Lady Gaga — on raw meat as an analogy for human flesh with “Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic.”
Now, four Dutch art students — Cors Brinkman, Jeroen van Oorschot, Marcello Maureira, and Matei Szabo — have created a “Meat Love” for the 21st century. Dubbed “Tender” (2014), the piece consists of a rotating hunk of meat that systematically swipes right on a smartphone strategically located beneath it with the dating application Tinder open. As the Leiden University students wrote on Vimeo: “‘Tender’ is the easy way to connect with new and interesting meat around you.” Here’s to meeting that special someone in meatspace.
