PIECE OF MEAT (2024)

With the development of the Internet came more ways than ever to connect and spread ideas, art, conversations, and products through websites. However, the World Wide Web also quickly became a means to distribute seedy material with pornography and gore sites. These websites proliferated in tandem with each other. Young boys and men behind locked doors, drawn curtains, with dimmed lights, visit these websites. It seems with each passing decade that these demographics are exposed to a greater amount of this content at an earlier and earlier age. The content gets more extreme the more they consume, until its borderline snuff and exploitative films. The entitlement over the female body is only further encouraged through online forums and communities that enable this behavior. The rise of non-consensual deepfake porn. Pornhub's "underaged" category. Only fans and nude photo leaks. Demand for control over women's bodies continues in our offline lives in schools, at work, in our legislation. piece of meat examines the inextricable link between sex and violence, and its more sinister implications. Using archival vhs pornographic material, coupled with surgical footage and Big Black's vitriolic noise-rock track Precious Thing, this video is meant to confront the viewer with the simple truth. That you are but a piece of meat.