Stress Stove

By Andrea Corsini

Topic: Personal Data

Medium: Object

Material: Scale, food, cannabis

Institute: Politecnico di Milano

Year: a.a. 2022-2023

The installation is a kitchen scale with on one plate the amount of high-calorie food I ate in a month, on the other plate the weight “corresponding to the calories” of cannabis, in a package that will explain the message and data with a camping stove to use the flammable material. The choice of using cannabis as a flammable plant material is related to the fact that I wanted to convey, as a secondary message, the short-circuiting of the use of such a drug, which in fact causes the so-called “munchies” that involves a reduction in stress level but an increase in food consumption.

Featured image of the project Stress Stove

Complementary image of the project Stress Stove

Metaphor used:

The final artifact will then be a stack of legal cannabis inflorescences, equal to the amount of needed to develop the same calories as the excess meals, it will be presented alongside a corresponding stack of food (e.g. if the excess calories over the time of a week are 100kcal a series of snacks whose caloric sum will give 100 will be placed on the table, of finaco a stack of 450 grams of hemp will be presented)

Intended Meaning:

I wanted to emphasize the link between high stress levels and high-calorie food consumption, and the amount of energy that is assimilated due to stress.

Source:

Personal stress level and calories consumption on my smartwatch, later converted into flammable plant material