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Menstruation Machine - 3D model

Collection

Sputniko

Description

A 3D model of “Menstruation Machine” which accompanies the 1/1 NFT of “Menstruation Machine - Takashi’s Take” by Sputniko! Menstruation Machine explores the relationship between identity, biology, and choice, while also inquiring into the meaning of gender-specific rituals. The metal device, which looks like a chastity belt and is equipped with a blood-dispensing system and electrodes that stimulate the lower abdomen, replicates the pain and bleeding of the average five-day menstruation period. It is designed to be worn by men, children, postmenopausal women, or whoever else wants to experience menstruation. A music video that can be displayed with the device is about Takashi, who wants to understand what it feels like to be a menstruating biological woman. Takashi builds the Menstruation Machine and wears it out on the town with a girlfriend, strutting around a shopping mall and occasionally doubling over in pain. Thus an internal, private process is transformed into a wearable display of identity. Since the 1960s, advances in hormone-based contraception have, by suppressing ovulation, made monthly periods no longer biologically necessary. Sputniko! notes that the Menstruation Machine may be particularly desirable in a future in which menstruation in fact becomes obsolete. You can view more detail about the work on the artist's website.  https://sputniko.com/Menstruation-Machine Exhibitions 2010 Transformation - Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo 2011 Talk to Me - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 2014 Design and Violence - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 2016 GLOBALE: New Sensorium – The ZKM Center for Art and Media 2017 Japanorama - Pompidou Center Metz 2019 Broken Nature - Milan International Design Triennial

Token

Contract: 0x495f...7b5e
Token ID: 64220600685395227397288639017121539538820385945697533986963613775435713740801