OiNk 0In#K oink~
Categories
Curatorial Design
Collaborators
Ason (Shixian Song), Katerina Nordgaard, Jennie (Lirong Lee), Leo (Jiayi Lin)
Material
Multimedia
Keywords
Curatorial Design Installation Spatial Narrative Food Ethics Embodied Experience Adaptation
Year
2022
The project began with the paintings of Katerina Nordgaard, from which the pig emerged as a recurring figure and conceptual anchor. Rather than treating the pig as a single image or symbol, we used it as a thread through which questions of body, life, consumption, and human-animal relations could unfold across space.
The project began with the paintings of Katerina Nordgaard, from which the pig emerged as a recurring figure and conceptual anchor. Rather than treating the pig as a single image or symbol, we used it as a thread through which questions of body, life, consumption, and human-animal relations could unfold across space.
Located in a hidden staircase in the RCA Darwin Building, the project responded directly to the site’s vertical movement and layered enclosure. We scattered the five vital organs of the pig throughout the building, allowing visitors to travel from the bottom to the top while gradually encountering different fragments of the animal body. The staircase was therefore transformed into more than a circulation route: it became a narrative structure through which spatial movement and conceptual discovery were closely tied together.
Located in a hidden staircase in the RCA Darwin Building, the project responded directly to the site’s vertical movement and layered enclosure. We scattered the five vital organs of the pig throughout the building, allowing visitors to travel from the bottom to the top while gradually encountering different fragments of the animal body. The staircase was therefore transformed into more than a circulation route: it became a narrative structure through which spatial movement and conceptual discovery were closely tied together.
Through this spatial journey, the project invited visitors to think beyond the pig as a familiar food source and to confront it as a living body. By linking anatomy, movement, and architectural experience, OiNk 0In#K oink~ opened a reflection on the distance between everyday consumption and animal life. It proposed installation and curatorial design as a way of making that distance visible, experiential, and difficult to ignore.
Through this spatial journey, the project invited visitors to think beyond the pig as a familiar food source and to confront it as a living body. By linking anatomy, movement, and architectural experience, OiNk 0In#K oink~ opened a reflection on the distance between everyday consumption and animal life. It proposed installation and curatorial design as a way of making that distance visible, experiential, and difficult to ignore.
