The Lifeblood

Lifeblood is a live multimedia sound performance about eating, nature, and the sky, by collecting the sound of volunteers peeling, chewing, and swallowing food in real-time, as well as recording various cooking and handling food sounds combined with the sound of eating from nature, the final sound mix output by connecting a synthesizer. Combined with a projection of the ceiling based on food and sky generated by AI, it allows the audience to listen to the noise from food while thinking about our relationship with food and nature. From Kew Garden to the Thames River Bank, Wetland Park, and finally, to the current church, I found that there is a food connection linking: plants and their food (soil and nutrients) in different regions, seabirds and their food and debris, and other animals in their living environment ...... Now to the church. What is it that we humans depend on? From ancient times to the present, the sky has represented faith in our lives and everything that we depend on for survival. There is an old Chinese saying that people regard food as their prime want, meaning that food is the lifeblood of people and is equivalent to the sky in our lives. It is a widely held view that life is only worthwhile if we eat well; thus, food serves as the foundation upon which everything else is built. In other words, from the point of view of eating alone, we are equal to all creatures around us, and we all eat in different ways and forms. It is precisely this that I want to embody with sound.