Millswiss©
„Millie“
[ mil-ee ]

Machine Of Assimilation

„All enjoyment, all taking in and assimilation, is eating, or rather: eating is nothing other than assimilation.“- Jacques Derrida, e-flux, 2009

Our perception of eating is drifting farther and farther away from the notion ofassimilation. Through a gradual cultural devaluation of eating, with food beingincreasingly delivered, processed, gulped in, thrown away, and gulped in again, wemerely consume food rather than eat food the way we should. Consequently, weare no longer aware of who we share our food with and by whom our food is created.

More importantly, we are not aware of what we eat. Swissmill as one of our anonymous cooks precisely hinders us to gain more awareness on our conception of food. By learning about our food, we can discover that eating always involves both the eater and the eaten. And by that, nobody is creating food, rather it is a benevolent negotiation between living organisms.

Millswiss© as a project aims to reconnect us to the very essence of eating, by proposing spaces that enable us to assimilate towards the eaten. A switch of domains takes place, as in Millswiss© we are the eaten. By establishing this new culinary relationship, Millswiss© wants us to reconsider our personal position towards eating and help us define how we can eat better.