Why Choose Pig?It’s year of the pig!

Sketch

Inspiration

Industrial Domestic Pig

I was inspired by an interview on Antenna (Rinaldo & Singer, 2007). The artist interviewed is Wim Delvoye. I like the idea that domestic pigs are human productions. By looking at two pictures above, those pigs were separated to single compartments. They were forced to eat certain amount of food everyday. Their weights and growths were strictly controlled. They are on a production line.

Back to my project, I chose pigs with larger size at the outer cycle and pigs with smaller size at the inner cycle: the outer the cycle, the larger the pig. Nowadays, we have high technology to breed pigs with high meat production so pigs can grow larger and larger to produce more and more meat.

Lytic Bacteriophage

Naming of this project was inspired by lytic bacteriophage. Lytic bacteriophage has lytic life cycle: it attaches to a bacteria host and replicate itself within the host. Domestic pigs are also made by replicated production. They may not have entirely the same gene but their life cycle is replicated. Each domestic pig is born, fed, and served.

Reference

Rinaldo, K. & Singer, A. (2007). Wim Delvoye: The Controversial Pig. Antennae, 12.