{"id":38374,"date":"2011-08-21T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/chimerical-performance-art\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:44:30","slug":"chimerical-performance-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/chimerical-performance-art.php","title":{"rendered":"Chimerical performance art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Performance artist Marion Laval-Jeantet has injected herself with horse blood plasma as part of an artistic project called \"May the Horse Live in Me\" that seeks to explore trans-species relationships. She prepared her body to accept the horse blood plasma by getting injected with different horse immunoglobulins over the course of several months:<\/i><\/p>

These foreign animal antibodies were injected in progressively larger amounts to allow her to build up tolerance in a process that she referred to as “mithridatisation,” after the Persian king of Pontus, Mithridates VI, who supposedly built up an immunity to poison by regularly consuming small doses of it.<\/i><\/p>

Earlier this year, after months of preparation, she was injected with horse blood plasma, which contained the full spectrum of immunoglobulins without provoking an allergic reaction.<\/p>

As part of the performance piece she also wore a set of stilts with hooves on the end to feel at one with the horse. She walked around with the donor horse in a “communication ritual” before having her hybrid blood extracted and freeze-dried.<\/p>

She explained to Centre Press that the whole process made her feel “hyperpowerful, hypersensitive and hypernervous.” She added: “I had a feeling of being superhuman. I was not normal in my body. I had all of the emotions of a herbivore. I couldn’t sleep and I felt a little bit like a horse.”<\/p>

Art Orienté Objet has a long history of working in the bioart space, having created other pieces including Skin Culture, which uses bioengineered skin as a canvas for animal-shaped tattoos.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Check out the video:<\/p>

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