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Milk

GPS project

Art-mapping project by Esther Polak (NL), Leva Auzina (LV) and Riga Center for New Media Culture

With:
Esther Polak, Leva Auzina

MILK explores visual and documenting possibilities of GPS technology. The project introduces to one of the countless movements of the international food trade, in this case milk. It is produced by Latvian farmers, made into cheese by a local factory with the help of an Italian expert, transported to the Netherlands, stored in a Dutch cheese warehouse to ripen and sold at the Utrecht market.

The map follows the milk from the udder of the cow to the plate of the consumer, by means of the people involved. They all were given a GPS device for a day: one of the days that they were somehow occupied with the movements of this dairy. The installation shows the actual GPS-tracks, the reactions of the participants on the tracks, and their personal relationship with the landscape involved.

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