MANILA – Future Feast is the culminating event for The Apocalypse Project: Imagined Futures, an exhibition about our environmental futures under climate change. Future Feast celebrates human creativity and our hopes for a sustainable future, which needs the efforts of everyone on the planet.
Invited chefs design dishes that we might eat in fifty years as humanity needs to rethink its food supply in a Convenience Store of the Future. A collaboration with Radio Republic presents its featured upcoming and established artists of the month as part of their Go! Experience event series. The event also holds a tinkering studio for children, spoken word performances, a Climate Change Couture closet, an environmental scavenger hunt, and other activities for people of all ages, highlighting the different pieces in The Apocalypse Project exhibition.
Guests are invited to come dressed in their own climate change couture and to post about the event online to win special prizes by tagging @themindmuseum #apocalypseproject. What would you wear to a future under climate change?
The Apocalypse Project – Future Lifestyles on Planet Earth
The Apocalypse Project is a speculative design exhibition that explores possible lifestyles under climate change. Contrary to the common end-of-the-world connotation, an apocalypse, originally translated from Greek means “a disclosure of knowledge”. This project aims to inspire people’s imagination on what can be creatively done to adequately prepare for the future.
It is comprised of five exhibit stations that bring out emotional connections with what we are losing and “gaining” in the context of climate change. Exploration through the senses such as smell & sound, clothing, and habitat can be investigated through objects, interactive exhibits, and participatory art. The exhibition is located in the Technology Gallery of The Mind Museum and will be on display until July 31, 2014.
The Apocalypse Project, first launched in 2013 at ArtScience Museum in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, is the brainchild of Catherine Sarah Young, an artist, scientist, designer, explorer, and writer whose work combines the arts and the sciences to create stories, objects, and experiences that facilitate wonder and human connection. Catherine has a degree in molecular biology and biotechnology from Manila, fine art education from Barcelona, and was a Fulbright scholar from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She was a correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer for six years, and is currently participating in an Art Science Residency Programme in partnership with ArtScience Museum, Tembusu College National University of Singapore and the Singapore-ETH Centre’s Future Cities Laboratory, working on the theme Climate Change and Environmental Futures.
