KIAC

A Ukrainian artist and biologist based between Malta and Amsterdam, Ira Melkonyan will work on a cross-disciplinary project founded on her research on female hormones and blood. From a transnational feminist perspective, she will question their physiological functions and social meanings in our time, in the form of a lecture performance and an installation.
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How much can a person contain? Working in a laboratory, between glass tubes, vials and refrigerators, organising blood. While pandemics spread and wars are fought. Disaster approaches from a distance. Strange reflections, desires and visions leak into the regulated routines of a bloodless environment made of seemingly hermetic walls and vessels.

With Blood Thirsty, Ira Melkonyan continues her research into the performativity of liquids, venturing into perhaps the most symbolic bodily fluid. Re-imagining blood and other biological substances, the performance explores a feminist mysticism of leaking bodies, political borders and a sense of connection.