Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. As a parallel to the elusive “umami” and its gradual scientific acceptance as a primary taste, we consider what is perceivable, knowable, and namable. Through the blue spectrum of various hermetic artifices, we are fed fables of Jules Verne's Nautilus and resurface in a virtual tanning bed, turning over in a slippery navigation of language.
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- Keyword: research, experiment, virtual reality, literature, collage, anthropology, language, nature, culture, color, humanity, dialect, perception, artifice, universality, animation, umami
- Cast: Bodil Jensen