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Chickenfeed
Artist: Mowry Baden
Date: 1984
Medium: mixed media
Object number: 1994.671.b
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DescriptionThis sculpture consists of an exercise machine, a treadmill, with the manufacturer's name (Tunturi) emblazoned on the frame and an agricultural auger used for unloading feed from trucks into silos. The viewer (participant) walks on the treadmill and chicken feed is released. A motor can also move the chicken feed out of the hopper, up a pipe, through a Dante Olive oil tin and seed bag and back into the hopper. installation, machine, kinetic, movement, treadmill, auger, motor, seed chicken feed, Tunturi, Dante Olive oil economics, consumerism, food distribution, bodily perception, task-oriented
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