TDR Flesh Burger 1995 - T-Shirt

Having seen the TDR™ issue of Emigre magazine, and our proposed work for Ronnie Cutrone’s Synaesthesia show at Broadway’s Mary Anthony Galleries, Customized Terror curator Ronald Jones approached us to feature in a show at Artists Space in SoHo NYC. The theme was Transmogrification — the conceptual point where one thing evolving into another is neither/nor. He was interested in our consumerism-as-religion work, and shared our fascination as to why we think what we think and why we’re (happily) seduced into needing something we never even knew we wanted.

We  interpreted the idea as being about things which aren’t described / defined for what they really they are. So, we presented the Bank of Jesus as church / religion, and the church as a financial institution (Beware The Voice of The Profit etc), the barcode as the swastika of consumerist Fascism (on a faux Nuremberg Rally banner and this Flesh Burger design commenting on the fact that however meat is prepared / marketed, the reality is that you are consuming Flesh. It’s an observation rather than a political point in this context.

Whereas Work Buy Consume Di riffed on the Pepsi logo, this message was expressed through a playful re-hash(brown) of Burger King.

This is what’s left.

*Approximate Size

Length: 80cm, Width: 60cm.