Through the Fe(male) Void, nonhuman-human surrogacy channels planetary metabolisation—where gestation, dissolution, and transmutation are inseparable.
DOG EGGS is a sculptural, cinematic, and sonic unfolding of this process, where synthetic and organic bodies are digested, transfigured, and broken down within a sealed biodegrading chamber. Power orients itself toward the metabolic, the gestational, the cosmic—a force that absorbs, mutates, and reconfigures across deep time, planetary time, and embodied time.
At the center of the installation, a former rental sex doll, sourced from an underground business in Gwangju, becomes a charged site of alchemical transition—absorbing new configurations of intimacy, extraction, and surrogacy across human, animal, and spectral realms. Around her, small black puppies—suspended between gestation and decomposition—undergo enzymatic degradation, dissolving into residue. The metabolic system, stimulated by bioremediation enzymes, activates decomposition as a process of transformation rather than disappearance.
Developed during the Creators_R Residency at the Asia Culture Center (ACC), South Korea, DOG EGGS integrates biotechnical rituals, necromantic traditions, and multispecies surrogacy into a hybrid installation. The work draws from the pet trade, the dog meat industry, and Korean spirit-channeling rituals, where women become temporary vessels for the dead. These forces converge within a gestational ecosystem, where synthetic bodies and organic remains dissolve into an alchemical residue of new possibilities.
T he work frames preservation not as stasis, but as an ongoing state of transformation—where life, power, and interspecies intimacy are continuously reconfigured. Sound operates as a necromantic and vibrational force of transmission—encoding the sculpture with planetary frequencies, ancestral voices, and multispecies consciousness.
Commissioned for the Creators_R Residency at the Asia Culture Center, South Korea.
Credits: 씻김굿 (ssitgim-gut) by 삼한신궁 | Costume: Jade O’Belle | Additional Performance: Seongsu Kim | Music: Aditya Surya Taruna a.k.a. Kasimyn | Mastering: Dom Glare | Additional Photography: Zan Li | Location: With Dog
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