Pour Your Body Out (2023-)
Material: powder milk, water, steel, silicone, pumps, etc.
Following both the Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters, numerous livestock animals were slaughtered due to fears surrounding the consumption of contaminated meat [1]. Fear of radiation shaped not only policies governing animal life, but also generated tensions around human reproductive rights. Multiple testimonies even report the systematic encouragement of abortions [2]. In this work, through incorporating post-humanist temporalities of decaying milk, synthetic skin, and chemically contaminated plants inside the spatial narrative, I envision a space to sensually examine how techno-nationalist biopolitics manifest through the regulation of more-than-human lives, oppression of queer communities, and enforcement of population control through eugenic logics. By tracing the circulation of bodily fluids, neither wholly human, animal, nor planetary, I aim to pose urgent questions around posthumanism, intimacy, pain, and queerness in the foreseeable future. The work examines human-animal relations through the lens of selection of lives in the face of environmental catastrophes
[1] International Atomic Energy Agency, Environmental Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident and their Remediation: Twenty Years of Experience , ( INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY VIENNA, 2006)
[2] Sebastian Pflugbeil, Henrik Paulitz, Angelika Claussen, Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake, Health Effects of Chernobyl 25 years after the reactor catastrophe, (German Affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), 2011)
