4 GRAMS OF IRON
A metabolizing art practice on blood

chapters:
  Intro: Addressed to blood
  Verse: Fix and flux
  Pre-chorus: metabolic vehicle
    backstory of metabolism
    aesthetic experience
    blood ingredients
    primordial sea
    polyperforming
    intentional leakages
  Chorus: Grounding
    non-native iron
    embracing subjectivity
    morphology of blood
    messy chemistry
  Bridge: Blood-mining
  Outro: Next-Steps

abstract:
Metabolism as an ancient concept -changing over time- can be applied as an artistic
method through its practice-oriented manifestation, rather than its passive expression in modern science. Here, blood, as life-giving body fluid but also extraterrestrial, non-human, deep-time matter —      which is the very reason we navigate and ground ourselves—  acts as one of the mediators of metabolism. Blood is used as an invitation to raise awareness beyond the body, fluctuating between bio and geochemical matter. Fluid rocks and fixed bloods are unpacked in the context of morphology, metallurgy, sensory properties and processes that take place between fossil materiality and humanity through molecular change. This practice-based research theoretically interconnects the natural, social, cultural and political spheres throughout the thesis and especially benefits from a bit of disorder.

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