Zimmerman, Andrea Luka (2003) The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow. [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Creators: | Zimmerman, Andrea Luka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description: | From today’s menu, I recommend Capitalism or Cannibalism; Communism is off. Our Catholicism is rather good, though; it comes with a liberal sauce or tourist topping. This is our pre-theatre-of-poverty menu. Meanwhile, The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow grows over-rapidly large on a forced steroidal diet. Elsewhere, the cousins of The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow pluck and hack in feathered ecstasy over the carcass of a chicken too careless crossing the road. This bright and colourful scene is but a moment of a clamorous market economy busy with flies and children; industrious striped-potbellied pigs rummaging through heaps between houses half-sunk in muddy water, while villagers jump from stone to stone. Cannibalism has long been a favourite on western menus. Other peoples’ cannibalism, that is. More than a colonial culinary oddity, it divided the men from the animals; the savagery of the conquistadors was projected onto their victims - after all, they, too, sported feathers. Rumours of cannibalism persist in tourist guides and travel books today; some people still wear feathers (though most of them have long since died of influenza). Between dream and nightmare, The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a traversal of here and elsewhere, first and third world; a fairytale of production, resources, capitalism, globalisation, refuse and refusal: The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a film not about the struggle to be seen, but about the struggle to see. With thanks to the Prelinger archive. |
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Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Funders: | Vision Machine Film Project | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related Websites: | http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2014/fever-dreaming/, http://www.lux.org.uk/collection/works/the-delmarva-chicken-tomorrow, http://film.britishcouncil.org/the-delmarva-chicken-of-tomorrow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Material/Media: | https://archive.org/details/TheDelmarvaChickenOfTomorrow_891 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Measurements or Duration of item: | 15min | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2014 08:50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2023 09:49 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Item ID: | 6280 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/6280 |
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