Hunger Count - FOOD4FUTURES

HUNGER COUNT 

Is a durational Performance Art Installation by Artist Carin Bester, taking place at The National Arts Festival in Makhanda 20 – 30 June 2024.

2, 566 million of South Africa’s household reported experiencing hunger during 2023, according to Stats SA. The aim of Hunger Count is to create awareness around food insecurity in SA, by creating a visual representation of these statistics.

Carin will do this by counting 25 660 beans, (that’s 1% of the 2.566 million households going hungry during 2023) every day for 10 days of the festival. An average of 9 hours per day. Resulting in 256 600 beans (10%) counted. They will be displayed in numbered heaps each representing various statistics of food insecurity in South Africa. 

This however is not the only aim; artist Carin Bester asks herself and the viewer to honestly reflect on our own habits when it comes to food and food waste and to look at ways in which we can all be less wasteful and kinder to others. Individually and as big corporations. <...