Ira Melkonyan & The Rubberbodies Collective

The performance artist Ira Melkonyan, a graduate microbiologist, takes a scientific view of the world. Protagonists of the universes she creates in her performative installations are not humans but liquids with a fascinating life of their own. They drip and splatter from bags, ooze out of pumps, gurgle in tubes or crawl like viscous lava over sloping surfaces. The liquids react to light, air and temperature. Sometimes gradually, sometimes torrentially, they change and  their surrounding world changes with them. And mankind turns out to be no more than a peripheral phenomenon. (esc)