BLOOD MILK MUCUS (2021) — LAURA FONG PROSPER

MUCUS BLOOD MILK (2021)

Image: Laura Fong Prosper and Kian Fong Herbst. Sound: Niko de Paula Lefort

Human bodies consist of up to 80% water, through which they are connected to other living beings, plants, water bodies and even Mars. A moon of menstrual blood, vaginal mucus and breast milk shines in all its beauty reminding us of all those rivers that spring from human mountains and caves. MUCUS BLOOD MILK is a visual inquiry into motherhood and hydrofeminism.

Bodily fluids form the starting point for an exploratory and poetic meditation on the planetary connectedness and interdependence of fluid bodies. The work, a collaboration between mother and son, was created during the pandemic state of emergency as an experimental play with bodily matter, a toy microscope and an analogue video synthesizer

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Exhibition views of REVOLTING SPINES AND SHIVERING CHAINS in Galerie in Turm, Berlin 2021

Curated by Linnéa Meiners and Jorinde Splettstößer

Bodies that care, bodies that are cared for. Trapped in structural dependencies, we hover in limbo in airless space with our technological armour and prostheses. We breathe concentrated oxygen until our breath rattles and our lungs burn.

Revolting Spines and Shivering Chains investigates embodied forms of resistance against social norms that judge and hierarchise bodies. How are dominant notions of health and care put into question? Might it be possible to establish a radical care for oneself and each other that withdraws from the logic of prevailing values, and that does not only serve to reproduce the labour force?

Our bodily fluids are transformed into gravitational waves. They build and build, creating a shared force which breaks on intergalactic shores, generating new worlds.

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Revolting Spines and Shivering Chains is the fourth part of the exhibition series MY WORKING WILL BE THE WORK. on self/care, labour and solidarity curated by Linnéa Meiners and Jorinde Splettstößer.