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Project name May the Horse Live in me
Organisation Art Orienté Objet
Persons Marion Laval-Jeantet,Benoît Mangin
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Country FR
Period 2011
URL http://www.artorienteobjet.com/
Tags bioart, tissues, hybrids, humans, animals, plasma, biotechnology, blood, horse, golden nica price,
Text The performance May the Horse Live in Me is an attempt at “bioart” and extreme body art in which the animal foreign body, here the horse, is hybridized with the human body by means of an injection of horse blood (plasma). But far from being a fatal intrusion, such as that of the mythological hero Midas, said to have committed suicide by drinking bull’s blood, the idea is to carry out genuine therapeutic research, with the horse blood being made compatible and having a protective effect. For this purpose, Marion Laval-Jeantet has tried out different horse tissue immunoglobulins. The horse immunoglobulins recognize the targeted tissues and induce a functional regulation of these tissues that is specific to them. This ceremony of blood-brotherhood raises a debate on barriers between species and the supposed priority of human over animal concerning the earth’s resources. Will the animal be the future of the human?