Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015 found objects, sound video and print 420 x 220 x 80cm Installed at the Drabee Road Nursery, Kandos, NSW. Australia as part of Cementa_15. April 2015 The manner in which the market works for a person producing and selling their own blood, blood products or body organs [...]
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Newsletter March 2024
Blood on Silk A Robotic Surgical Tool Relaxes by Baking Bread, 2024, Paint and found object (an industrial aluminum bread baking tray) 70 x 40 x 4 (d) cm In this work I speculate about the possibility that a robotic means of facilitating surgery may require the supports often deemed desirable by humans, The [...]
Invitation to MASHUP
The first of two nights of experimentation in a club/bar near Central Station in Sydney Australia. Seven + artists from MAPBM will be using image and sound to inhabit a darkened club space where the boundaries between one work and the next will be fluttery. Join us to see my work extending the blood running [...]
Selected for the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival. Online now.
The video of Blood on Silk:Import/Export
Click on this link to watch this video from 2017 https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/544561302 Photo Credit Rachael Samuels Blood on Silk : Import /Export,has the soundtrack of a reading of the 2008 Declaration of Istanbul on organ trafficking and transplant tourism. Among other factors this document outlines who can be a living donor to a specific individual. This [...]
Memorial/Time of Death
Finally have my video, made in 2008, up on my still under-construction website Go to this address to watch a 3'30" video where I question the determination of the time of death. https://www.fionadavies.com.au/works/corpus photo credit Alex Wisser video still of projection onto black wall
April 2021
Fiona Davies, Blood on Silk: Surviving the Night, 2021, Video Still This image is from a long form video work that is one of the components in an upcoming installation. Here anonymised individuals with their face fully or partially hidden from facial recognition software queue for who knows what.
Why our hearts fail: new research
Australian researchers have made several new heart failure discoveries in an innovative world-first project examining cryo-preserved human hearts, procured after transplantation, in the Sydney Heart Bank. Source: Why our hearts fail: new research
Article on the use of powdered blood.
The Medicalization of Death in History by the Chirurgeon’s Apprentice
When the Black Death swept through Europe in the 14th century, it claimed the lives of over 75 million people, many of who were clergymen whose job it was to help usher the dying into the next worl… Source: The Medicalization of Death in History
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