Blood Designer

In 2017, I centred my undergraduate thesis ANAEMIA on a new area of performance design: synthetic blood. After engineering my own artificial vein system and producing 200 litres of fake blood (my own recipe), I employed the device in live performance.

Since then, I have evolved and transformed the project with collaborator Alejandro Mora and premiered the newly imagined performance at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. Now with a newly evolved electrical pump and the ability to navigate much larger quantities of fluid, the project continues to grow and metamorphose.

The project exists as a durational performance—including at least two bodies, one gown, a blood pump, and the desired quantity of fake blood. The blood pump consists of an electrical motor, six artificial veins ten metres in length, individual pressure valves, and a large translucent container. The performance runs anywhere from twenty minutes to several hours—depending on the quantity of blood produced for each performance; it is complete when there is nothing left to pump.

ANAEMIA is available for touring production—for more information on hosting the project please contact me directly.