"May the horse live in me"
Interesting experiment, interesting storytelling, but far beyond reality

"She explained to Centre
Press<http://www.centre-presse.fr/article-145011-dans-les-veines-de-l-artiste-coule-le-sang-de-cheval.html>that
the whole process made her feel “hyper-powerful, hyper-sensitive and
hyper-nervous.” She added: “I had a feeling of being superhuman. I was not
normal in my body. I had all of the emotions of a herbivore. I couldn’t
sleep and I felt a little bit like a horse.”"

Interpretation, wishful thinking - bullshit.

Anyone who had medical tests done in an hospital to check out the heart and
who has been injected with chemicals knows it needs little (these chemicals)
to make you feel a completely different person. (anxious, calm, nervous etc)
Chemicals have a deep impact on our being (all drug users know this too),
feelings, experiences of ourselves, so it's no wonder horse proteins make
you feel changed, anything would.

I like the experiment, the discussion it triggers, but I abhor the biased
language used by these artists. In my opinion it doesn't take science
serious, only uses it for something else.

Yours
Annie



On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/08/11 18:17, marc garrett wrote:
> > Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves
> >
> > By Olivia Solon
> >
> > Laval-Jeantet and her creative partner Benoit Mangin (working as
> > collective Art Orienté Objet) were keen to explore the blurring of
> > boundaries between species in the piece, entitled May the Horse Live in
> > Me. Laval-Jeantet prepared her body to accept the horse blood plasma by
> > getting injected with different horse immunoglobulins over the course of
> > several months.
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/horse-blood-art
>
> Oh I was going to post that later. :-)
>
> I wish I knew enough immunobiology and medical ethics to be able to
> evaluate the reality of it a bit better...
>
> - Rob.
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