Blood Meal:
 A collaborative multimedia Performance by Katina Bitsicas and Rachel Strickland
(projection mapped video, audio, and performance art), 3:55, 2021

The collaborative multimedia performance, Blood Meal, illustrates the lifecycle of an organism by bringing the grotesqueries of organic development into focus.  As a cluster of organisms slowly coagulate into an amorphous whole, the projection and audio swell to reveal a lifeform within the light of the circular projection.  A series of articulate and pointed movements conjure a recognizable creature, emerging from the fabric womb.  Punctuated by percussive events of trauma and growth, the performance escalates into a crescendo of vitality.  The apex of the lifeform is short-lived, with its primary function complete.  The creature fades into the seasonal tide without fanfare. A brief period of mourning holds space for the loss that occurred.  The performance concludes on a breath, an omen for future cycles.  The body consumes itself to multiply, achieving immortality paradoxically within its demise.