Love Bites

Milica Denković Portfolio

FROM IDEA TO MEDIA

Speculative design work that combines the theme of menstrual blood as an ingredient, the future of food, impossible tastes, and ancient folk love magic. Question the audience: What is acceptable as a taste? What is considered disgusting as a consumption practice now? Can that change? What could be new sources of food?

The world where this artwork exists is a place where food scarcity pushed humans to search for food resources inside their own bodies. After numerous experiments, they came to the solution of using menstrual blood clots as a source of nutrients. The blood has high levels of iron and antioxidants. But a side was discovered, if people drink the blood clot of another person, they fall in love, something that was already described in the local culture of love poison making.

So a new ritual was made, you can take one sample

Choose a person of your interest

Read a chant in private corner

Give the bite to the person you choose

The chant:

“One bite to fall in love,

second bite to calm the guts / the cramps, third bite to improve the blood.

Here comes the health to you inside.

Here comes the love to your heart.”

EXHIBITION PHOTOS

ABOUT EXHIBITION

This work is the outcome of the speculative design workshop Speculative Kitchens:

Metamedij Association, in collaboration with the Department of Visual Communications Design (Academy of Arts in Split), Istrian University of Applied Sciences and METRIS Research Centre, organised a speculative design workshop titled Speculative Kitchens: A Workshop on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Speculative Design. The workshop was held from 2 to 6 March at the Novo Gallery in Pula, under the mentorship of Laura Rodriguez and Daria Testo