Of Metabolic Myth

Abstract

For the bilingual French-English journal RADDAR's 4th issue, edited by T&P WorkUnit, Paris and MUDAC museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne (CH), Of Metabolic Myth is an essay an on media, film, food and fakery. The piece begns with reference to Orson Welles' 1973 docudrama "F for Fake" and winds up at fieldwork performed with the fishing communities of Calabria, Italy. Released to coincide with the reopening of MUDAC museum as part of Platform 10, the 4th issue of RADDAR was curated by Émile De Visscher and Les Presses Pondérées on the topic of "Faux/Fake", beyond 'real' and 'truth', toward using faking strategies as powerful tools to bypass or question the current "crisis of truth."