Medusa

Alice Abela, Weronika Bojkowska, Parnian Farmani, Emilia Gruber

Common ground

• Hormonal cycle
• Food culture
• Contraception and fertility
• Fictional history
• Rituals

Object Studies

Thinking about the future

We took already existing hidden ritual that is part of hormonal cycle and menstruation and translated it into the future, making it a visible and important part of the belief system of a specific community

Narration and Worldbuilding

creating a fictional religious community in the future centered around the hormonal cycle

1. Connection to nature is the highest force
2. Biological calender, measurement of time based on cycle/bodily processes
3. Bleeding as a service for the community
4. Burial ritual to become a fertilizer to the plants you have tended to throughout your life
5. Symbol: immortal jellyfish (Medusa)
   1. The species “Turritopsis dohrnii”: reverts if stressed and is “reborn”
   2. Symbol of protecting and practicing rest in contrast to current capitalist culture, and honoring the cyclicality of life and nature

Possible story-telling

A form of documentation of this community and their rituals and habits, recorded by one or two members of the community

Next steps

• Creating the future world regardless of the religion
  • future of fertility, reproduction and natural resources
• Thinking what kinds of rituals could we be interpreted to have today from the perspective of that future
• Starting the journal
• Sketching more vessels
• Specifying the gardening, food practices, and rituals
• Visit the contraception and abortion museum in Vienna