Masticate Animate

Who hasn‘t spent an hour or two this week repeatedly sliding fingers gently across device screens, hoping to find something—a bit of amusement, distraction from the day, a recognizable pattern perhaps? One image after another, strung end-to-end, until you can’t even notice the space between them anymore. Just a few hours ago, you probably also prepared some food, broke it into pieces and moved it towards your mouth in the hopes of satisfying your morning appetite. One chew after another, smoothing out the borders between morsels, until you were left with a fluid, digestible slurry. Masticate Animate explores the sensory overlaps between seeing and eating and what the human body does to help us string together a sequence of events. You are invited to eat and to see.

Connor Muething (b. 1993) is a designer from the United States. He holds a bachelor's degree in graphic design from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2016) and is a current candidate for a masters degree in scenography from the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW (2025). He was the design director at karlssonwilker in New York from 2018–2023. In addition, he has his own design practice with projects in branding, animation, programming, web design & development for artists, galleries and festivals. Much of his work encourages ‘humorous consumption’, appropriating human-made systems and constants to make new opportunities for play.