Ship's Creation Magazine #4 - Taste Ship - Consuming Life

Every day, we consume countless lives. Does eating something signify its death? Could the creatures that perish be reborn through our own existence? This book invites you to explore the daily act of eating through the lens of life and death. Publication Date: October 2015 Bilingual (English/Chinese), Full Color 80 pages, Softcover, 170x230 mm “Ship’s Creation Magazine” is an independently published arts and culture periodical. Using the format of a paper exhibition, it draws inspiration from the five human senses to gather works and creation stories from various fields around the world. Each issue focuses on a different sense, integrating painting, photography, installation, writing, music, architecture, film, and even food, travel, and the people and things in our lives. This issue, “Ship’s Creation Magazine #4,” sets sail with “Taste” as its theme: “Consuming Life.” Table of Contents: 1. Foreword—On Consuming Life / Li Yi-Hua 2. Painting—What Life and Death Do You See? / Pan Mu-Wen 3. Photography—The Last Resort / Dinn Pal 4. Participation—Eating Creations / Jennifer Rubell, Hung Hsiang-Ju 5. Project—The Last Meal of a Death Row Inmate / Henry Hargreaves 6. Cuisine—Dishes That Soothe the Soul / Chen Yu-Wen 7. Film—Breathing In Your Exhale, “Midnight Diner” / Liang Bi-Ru 8. Writing—I Am Seen Eating People in Public / Huang Hsiao-Mi, Pan Chia-Hsin 9. Call for Submissions—Why I Don’t Eat Meat / John Psathas, Tsao Liang-Pin, Claire Busby 10. Imagery—Another Kind of Death / Emma Chiesie 11. Illustration—Artificial Meat Recipes / Silvia JolliPorti Foreword: From the special issue “Hallucination Ship” to “Taste Ship,” we experienced the birth of a new life in between. Hsiang-Ju’s first child was born on the opening day of the “Ship’s Creation Exhibition . Three-Fifths.” As the little life grew inch by inch, we began to contemplate the relationship between food and human life that “Taste Ship” might explore. However, at this very time, we simultaneously experienced the illness and passing of elders in our families. During this period, several outstanding talents in Taiwan’s arts and culture circles also suddenly passed away, truly making us feel that life and death ebb and flow within our daily eating and living, never ceasing. We eat every day. Does consuming something signify its death? When we kill another animal or plant and cook it into food, does that deceased creature, once consumed, live again through our own lives? Eating another life to sustain our own seems to be a law of nature. Yet, within civilized society, how does food culture dictate the life and death of other beings? And how should certain animals live? In “Ship’s Creation Magazine #4: Taste Ship,” we examine our daily meals through the perspectives of life and death. Each day, we consume numerous lives, and one day, we too will die. Our deceased bodies may become nourishment for other life forms, only to be consumed by them in turn. Facing the comings and goings of life with such an attitude seems to bring a sense of romantic intimacy. Publisher: Ship Studio Editor-in-Chief: Li Yi-Hua + Hung Hsiang-Ju Contributing Writers: Liang Bi-Ru, Huang Hsiao-Mi, Chen Yu-Wen Translators: Chan Chun-Hui, Chen Wei-Pu Origin/Manufacturing Method Origin: Taiwan