Saturday 3 November 2012

ONE SECOND

(Eros completes Thanatos) 


-PROPOSAL FOR INSTALLATION-

Background: 

  • The male fish Photocorynus spiniceps swims inside the female's vagina and stays there forever in aeternal copulatio until, eventually, some years later,  the female dies and so does he. Parasitic love does not know any deeper paradigm. 
  • Vandellia sp comprehends a number of amazonian fish species that share the notable feeding behaviour of, following the urea trail that mammals leave behind, leaking out in their urine, manage to locate themselves inside the urethra of unsuspecting swimmers, that will thoroughly regret their whimsical fondnes of going swimming in unfamiliar waters. 


Materials and Design: In a glass tank, 2.5 m high, 3.5 m across and 2 m deep full of water, a perforated septum divides and at the same time communicates two chambers. 

The orifices are 0.50 cm in diameter so the female P. spiniceps is contained in one of the chambers. However, Vandellia sp is small enough to cross to either side. Indeed it is small enough to swim inside the urethras of both myself and Nigella Lawson, who innocently live naked on either chamber. It is extremely unpleasant and the tiny spiny fins allow him to swim up your urinary tract and to lock inside like a harpoon if trying to go down. 

Also, on the side that the female P spiniceps is not present, an electric manta ray inhabits the benthos. I love Nigella and Nigella loves me back. The male P spiniceps live not only inside their partners but also swim everywhere throughout the tank, populating not only their counterpart's vaginas but also our corneas, tympani, gums and, possibly, rectums.  Vandellia sp too. The ominous presence of the manta ray reminds you that Damien Hirst was once good. 

It is up to the curator to decide whether hundreds of praying mantis enjoy their mating rituals and a nutritious prospect while they fly about in the same room where the audience admires LOVE. 

Nigella and I always contemplate one another. 

My skin is getting very wrinkly. 

Charles Saatchi please help. 

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