SILKE SCHWARZ

ARE YOU HUNGRY?

Audio, 8:05 min, Loop
2019

Museum Brot und Kunst Ulm, 2019

Audioauszüge aus:
Andy Warhol - Eating a Hamburger, 1982 / bodensee.de - Tourismus Marketing GmbH & CO. KG / Bundesernährungsministerin Julia Klöckner (Bundestag 20.02.2019, Interview Ntv 11.12.2018) / Caritas und Du - Hunger in Zahlen / Galiloe Tv - Wie funktioniert die Überlebensmaschine Mensch? / Hartz IV Regelsatz für Nahrung und alkoholfreie Getränke / Herztöne / Intervall Timer / Pablo Picasso - Das karge Mahl, 1904 / YouTube Bloggerin Teni Panosian/ Youtube - What does Starvation do to your body?

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Für die neue Dauerausstellung im Museum Brot und Kunst entstand zum Thema Hunger ist menschengemacht die Audioarbeit Are you hungry?. Der Hunger bleibt hier unsichtbar, er wird für das Publikum durch das Gehörte erfahrbar gemacht. Die Arbeit bildet eine Collage aus Exzerpten aus Politik, Wissenschaft und der Popkultur.

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For the new permanent exhibition in the Museum Brot und Kunst, the audio work Are you hungry? created on the subject of hunger is man-made. Hunger remains invisible here, it is made tangible for the viewer through what is heard. The work forms a collage of excerpts from politics, science, and pop culture.

Are you hungry?
Audio, 8:05 min, Loop (en)

How are you?
What have you done today?
Are you hungry?
Are you really hungry?
How hungry are you on a scale that ranges from 0 to 10? Is it just appetite?

Are you hungry?
Are you really hungry?
How often do you say I’m starving?
Have you thought about it?
Have you ever felt like you just can’t stop eating?
Have you ever made a diet? Do you need to do one? Which kind of food would you not want to miss in your live? Come on, tell me?

I just finished eating a hamburger.
I just finished eating a hamburger.
I just finished eating a hamburger.
I just finished eating a hamburger.
I just finished eating a hamburger.

I started juicing.

brussels sprouts
burger
broccolini
burger
kale
burger
spinach
burger

A man and a woman are sitting side by side at a table. In the foreground on the crumbled tablecloth which lays in front of them, stands a bottle of wine, two glasses, and an empty plate. Only in one of two glasses is still a rest of wine. A broken piece of bread and a small piece are on the table next to the plate.

The lemon actually makes it taste better to it. It has a pretty strong taste but I personally like it. I put in one apple, don’t put more than one, it’s just a lot of sugar that you don’t need.

The man’s head is turned left to the side, his eyes are sunken and closed. Turned away from the woman next to him, his right arm lies around her shoulders. The absently glance of the woman is directed to the right. She holds her chin with her right bony hand. The hands of the two are oversized and skinny. The bodies are haggard and lean, their contours edged, as well as the folds of the tablecloth.

But what if you had nothing to eat?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?

On average in Germany, we throw 11 million tons of food away every year. Food that could still be used. That’s about 55 kg per head, likewise you could fill Lake Constance twice with it.

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But what if you had nothing to eat?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?
But what if you had nothing to eat?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?

Worldwide nearly 800 million people live in the situation of chronic malnutrition, hence every ninth person.

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We have very safe food, we have high quality food to very affordable prices.

Every ten seconds a child dies as a result of hunger and malnutrition.

About 45 % of all deaths of children under five years are due to malnutrition.

Everyone can download it, look in your fridge, you look at something and you don’t know what to do with it. Before you throw it away, you get good tips and hints with the Beste Reste App (Great Leftovers App). With the digitization you can read with an app about almost every product further on your mobile phone where it comes from. You also can read on a tablet in a store, briefly scan over it and then you get the information. That’s changing rapidly.

A human needs an average of 1800 kilo calories per day. If this value can’t be reached the ingestion isn’t enough to hold the body weight and do light work.

But otherwise, first of all it’s great that our shelves are full, that we have goods that we are allowed to choose, that is democracy and an open country.

The Hartz IV rule set for food and soft drinks is 145,04 €
145,04 €
145,04 €
per month

The right of food, called adequate nutrition, is considered as a human right and is enshrined in international law and apply to all people unrestricted. (International Pact on economic, social and cultural rights 1966/1976, unanimously adopted by the United Nations)

I just finished eating a hamburger.
I just finished eating a hamburger.
I just finished eating a hamburger.
I just finished eating a hamburger.
I just finished eating a hamburger.

But what if you had nothing to eat?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?
What happens to your body when it’s starving? But what if you had nothing to eat?
What happens to your body when it’s starving?

If no food is consumed, the human body switches to the so-called starva- tion response after just one day. It decreases heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature. The energy is taken from the protein storage, the muscles. After and after your own muscles are consumed more and more. The body first breaks down the muscles, then the fat. If the fat is used up, the organs are broken down. Heart, liver, pancreas, kidney tissue, lungs, and all other organs produce glucose so that the brain can be cared for. The body begins to consume itself. The barrier function of the skin sub- sides, the immune system weakens, inflammation spreads. The organs can shrink up to 50%. Only the brain remains untouched. Those who starve, die with a completely intact brain.