{"id":7840,"date":"2022-12-06T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpzimmer.spot-digital.co\/?post_type=residencies&#038;p=7840"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:22:10","slug":"blood-thirst-or-eat-our-humble-pie","status":"publish","type":"residencies","link":"https:\/\/wpzimmer.spot-digital.co\/en\/residencies\/blood-thirst-or-eat-our-humble-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Thirst, or Eat Our Humble Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ira Melkonyan&#8217;s<\/strong> research on blood, which constitutes this proposal, is a natural progression from her previous work exploring the performativity of liquids and non-human actants. This project extends on her work history and leans further into her laboratory skill set and enthusiasm as a DIY citizen scientist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This proposal seeks to engage with (women&#8217;s) blood and the transfer of its knowledge, in the following ways: as a scientific concept, a fluid that carries hormones, neurotransmitters and much more; as affect and symbol; as a non-human entity with its own agency, object (or abject) oriented ontologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ira&#8217;s objective, on a longer term, is to create an open-source process, a DIY home-kit, which allows the user to self-perform blood analysis. Within the research process she wants to get closer to a prototype while creating a poetic contextualising narrative to further the ideas of a hormonal compass and endocrinological maps of (female) bodies beyond the existing medical knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Research questions<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Who has the agency to decide the framing of blood?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How can we keep progressing our relationship towards this bodily fluid?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How is blood a \u201cvibrant matter\u201d?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What does our understanding and representation of blood say about the times we live in or relate to contemporary burning issues of political, economic and environmental crisis?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What is the performance of blood?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What does it mean for women to have access to self-knowledge in the form of self testing devices?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How does self- knowledge and self-determination promote the conditions for interconnectivity?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, it is the phrase \u201cFemale hormones are a mystery\u201d that stays with Ira in a productive way. And her ambition is not to demystify them but to re-fabulate endocrinological body knowledge from a transdisciplinary feminist perspective. She wants to sneak past the gate(keeping) of conventional medical science and wrap the wet knowledge that hormonal bloody entities provide. A portion of poetry, a portion of horror, a portion of spirituality, a portion of science, and messy leaking living bodies full of blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7841,"template":"","class_list":["post-7840","residencies","type-residencies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blood Thirst, or Eat Our Humble Pie - wpZimmer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wpzimmer.spot-digital.co\/en\/residencies\/blood-thirst-or-eat-our-humble-pie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blood Thirst, or Eat Our Humble Pie - wpZimmer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ira Melkonyan&#8217;s research on blood, which constitutes this proposal, is a natural progression from her previous work exploring the performativity of liquids and non-human actants. 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