We Should Fear Thirst

performance, audio video installation | time variable | 2019

If there is something we have in common, it is the liquidity of our body. We sustain our existence through physical intimacy and fluid exchange. This embodied hydrological cycle is every time different, although the water we are is always coming from somewhere and moving somewhere else, this water is always new, in its form, rhythm, meaning and potential. In the performance, products of common consumption are donated to represent the absolute essence of the body. The artificial colour and texture of the liquids is apparently not human, but in the drinking process they become part of the cycle. The video component of the work shows my body in contact with different liquids, while a background music with the sounds of my bodily fluids spreads through the gallery space embracing viewers during their visit.

Performance presented at SomoS Art Space, in occasion of “Un/real Desires” on 22.10.19.