MARKÉTA DOLEJŠOVÁ

  • Parlour of Food Futures

A speculative oracle exploring possible food futures through the 15th-century game of Tarot.

The food speculations were performed over a Food Tarot card deck presenting 22 speculative diet tribes such as Datavores, Genomic Fatalists and Turing Foodies. Although primarily future-oriented, each tribe refers to an existing food-tech trend: Datavores are self-trackers designing their diets according to quantified data accounts of their metabolic processes; Genomic Fatalists believe in DNA-based diet personalization and eat to ‘feed’ their genes; Turing Foodies like to cook their food in a smart kitchen, using the guidance of AI kitchenware and algorithms.

The Parlour project used the Tarot technique that has been traditionally performed as a card game as well as for divinatory purposes and future speculations. Growing from the Tarot inspiration, the project supported imaginative human-food interactions and presented food futures as uncertain affairs open to diverse interpretations.

In 2019, the Parlour evolved into the Tarot Lab project (collaboration with Darina Alster). The Lab merged magic and divination techniques with experimental food design and fiction to open questions about possible food futures in the times of ongoing climate apocalypse.

Year:2017-2020

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