I walked along the footpath of the Warren, collecting black berries with a French lady who supported my forage ritual. Our fingers were stained with our blood and the ink from the berries. Our skin were torn apart by the needles that protected the beautiful black clusters, the pain of our forage was all for the preparation of a performance behind an abandoned building in Folkestone. My body, covered in clumps of red blood like substance, I moved with the weight of my endeavour. 

Performing DNA, is a performance art project exploring depression and food  as topics for philosophical enquiry into the relevance of performance practice in the field of scientific and medical research. The project explores various fasting practices, the idea of the proposition of self-care as a socially performed medication; putting them up for debate and inviting participants and audiences to share and exchange perspectives. Informed by my performance practice, and a contextualisation of fasting as a ritual that locates the site of resilience within the body. Contesting conventional notions and expectations of self-care and in turn questioning the boundaries of care within the socially expected institutions. 

Through this project, I am developing new areas of cultural consideration, allowing for human ecological reflection and the adoption of new strategic thinking tools for myself and my audiences in areas such as mental health and the relevance of food in our internal ecology.