Amy Chiao
Amy Chiao
Amy Chiao; Discover the Top 5 Luxury Eco-Tourist Destinations in the Galaxy sponsored by Peter Thiel’s Pet Turtle Institute & McMoon Nuggets Fast Food Chain Restaurants on Planet O’Harezon X, 2020-ongoing; Custom printed collage luggage, electronics, sand, chicken bones, seashells, fake chicken wings, drone, water bottle, toothbrush, acrylic puzzles; Dimensions variable
Amy Chiao; Discover the Top 5 Luxury Eco-Tourist Destinations in the Galaxy sponsored by Peter Thiel’s Pet Turtle Institute & McMoon Nuggets Fast Food Chain Restaurants on Planet O’Harezon X (detail), 2020-ongoing; Custom printed collage luggage, electronics, sand, chicken bones, seashells, fake chicken wings, drone, water bottle, toothbrush, acrylic puzzles; Dimensions variable
Amy Chiao; Discover the Top 5 Luxury Eco-Tourist Destinations in the Galaxy sponsored by Peter Thiel’s Pet Turtle Institute & McMoon Nuggets Fast Food Chain Restaurants on Planet O’Harezon X (detail), 2020-ongoing; Custom printed collage luggage, electronics, sand, chicken bones, seashells, fake chicken wings, drone, water bottle, toothbrush, acrylic puzzles; Dimensions variable
DISCOVER THE TOP 5 LUXURY ECO-TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN THE GALAXY SPONSORED BY PETER THIEL’S PET TURTLE INSTITUTE & McMOON NUGGETS FAST FOOD CHAIN RESTAURANTS ON PLANET O’HAREZON X
Shall we conquer the rest of Earth, or venture out to Space? Do you want to win a safe-waters trip floating on Peter Thiel’s Pet Turtle Institute’s Polynesian cruise line? Have a frisky dining experience munching at McMoon Nuggets Fast Food Chain Restaurants on Planet O’Harezon X?
At the height of COVID quarantine 2020, this project developed into two speculative design ecosystems themed on mythologies of the Aesop fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” as a metaphor for the sustainable trajectory of speed in human progress, production, and colonization.
These dichotomic lifestyles prophesize the domestication of two beloved animals: pet turtles and rabbits. As technologies for transportation, sustenance, and other essential material energy resources, the fable cutely packages high tech, neo-colonial ventures as marketable eco-tourism sites. Leisure – in lieu of survival – is the way to consumers’ hearts and wallets. Three leading angel investors – Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos – envision these future cities of the last humans standing, built upon their own ethos of political autonomy. Sellable animal mascots take the place of the entrepreneurial figures, as branded teams for oceanic and extraterrestrial micronations.
BIO
Amy Chiao is a multimedia artist, performer, designer, and director working in site-specific performance, video, installation, collage, and material design. She holds a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design and is a recent graduate of the MFA program at CalArts in Scene Design, with a concentration in Integrated Media. Her expansive bodies of work and research uncover the fictitious nature of society, critiquing the performativity of bodies, characters, and brand entities through speculative design narrative strategies.
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