Menstration Machine
An interesting blend of design, sculpture, performance art, video, and music
...not to mention gender!
Check out Sputniko's website for more projects like the "Sushiborg Yukari" which is a bizzare mix of Tarentino and Nyotai Mori, and the "Penis Cybernetique" which responds to your heartrate, allowing women to grow a boner. Very cool designer.
It’s 2010, so why are humans still menstruating?’
"As a female designer I had one big question I wanted to solve.
The pill free, bleeding interval was devised when the contraceptive pill first came out, only because it was felt by doctors that women would find having no periods too unacceptable (since the 1960s, taking the pill continuously could have removed periods all together) The doctors may think that women are psychologically attached to their periods, but only humans, apes and bats out of all mammals need to bleed monthly for their reproductive cycle. What does Menstruation mean, biologically, culturally and historically, to humans? Who might choose to have it, and how might they have it?
Fitted with a blood dispensing mechanism and lower-abdomen-stimulating electrodes, the Menstruation Machine is a device which simulates the pain and bleeding of an average 5 day menstruation process of a human (well…I have done my best to simulate my own, at least).
The machine is not worn only by men, but also by women when menstruation may become obsolete in the future and the process becomes a mere ritual of gender and identity. The music video illustrates just one example of many possibilities of how and by whom this machine can be used."
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Like my great aunt Mildred always used to say, don't trust anything that bleeds for a week and doesn't die.
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