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The Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies (MOCS) satirizes the social stigma around fatness. The project is loosely conducted as a scientific organization that coordinates obeast field investigations and educates the public about obeasts through museum exhibitions, nature documentaries, and awareness campaigns.
Among my roles for this project is performing as the North American Obeast, a fictitious genus of endangered mammals. As an obeast, I am a hungry, simple creature that needs to be protected and controlled. By dehumanizing obesity and re-casting it as the obeast, the MOCS project exaggerates the media's depiction of fat people to the extent that it becomes darkly humorous rather than merely requiring the viewer’s pity. The surrealism and absurdity of the obeast's world engages the viewer to spend time with the work, and temporarily disarms and de-personalizes this awkward issue.
Visit the MOCS website for a different experience of the work: www.obeasts.org |
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