Public Sharing with Ira Melkonyan & Jimmy Grima

How much can a person take? Working day in and day out in a laboratory. Between glass tubes, vials and refrigerators, organizing blood. While pandemics spread and wars are fought. Disaster approaches from afar. Strange reflections, desires and visions leak into the regulated routines of a bloodless environment of seemingly hermetic walls and vessels.

With Blood Thirsty, Ira Melkonyan and Jimmy Grima continue their research on the performativity of fluids from a transnational feminist perspective, venturing into what is probably the most metaphorically loaded bodily fluid. Centered on blood and other biological substances as performative agents, this transdisciplinary performance explores the fantasies and mysticism surrounding leaking bodies, political boundaries, and the sense of connection.

Concept, text and performance: Ira Melkonyan
Visual dramaturgy, production and technical design: Jimmy Grima with TinyIsland Studio
Sound design: Isadora Tomasi
Stage direction advise: Biljana Radinoska
A production of the rubberbodies collective
Co-produced with SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Utrecht
With the kind support of VEEM House for Performance, Amsterdam and Arts Council, Malta.

www.rubberbodiescollective.com

Host or Publisher BAU