Coughing Back and Forth Forever was performed at Eden in Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Emily Lucid.

Photos by Marissa Lynn.

Video courtesy Emily Lucid.

Leather pup masks by Genevieve Belleveau.

“The Germ and The Lab. What does it mean to domesticate Nature? To harness both its violences and its enrichments? To imitate its nutrients and supercharge its threats? Germ is a pup who represents the unique adaptations of pathogenic organisms, an undeniable building block in the balance of ecosytemic enmeshment. Lab-Grown Labrador is the dominant ideology that Science has a solution for everything. He is a slab of plant protein rendered to mimic and synthesize the animal flesh deemed no longer ethical to ingest. They agree to an exchange of their mucous membranes, animated by paraphillic desire to understand the invisible.”