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This is the third installment for Herring under a Fur Coat, a group show with artists Michael Höpfner and Martin Kohout. As the last of her three works made for the exhibition—which all deal with distributed encounters—Berrigan invites the audience to download a print of her tongue from the gallery website. Printed and redistributed outside of the gallery, the image enters into a wider network of potential intimate encounters.

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These chocolates illustrate the protein structure of the hepatitis C virus. A model of the virus was printed from a magnified 3D cryoelectron micrograph of the virus from the Protein Data Bank. The chocolates were then cast into this molecular form. The truffles do not carry hepatitis C. Each one was lovingly handmade from 72% Belgian roasted cocoa. Desire to eat the enticing chocolates is mixed with a repulsion for the infectious virus. It serves as a synecdoche for the body, coming out of the blood and going back in through the stomach, while also serving as an agent of information rather than infection. This unnerving dialectic has proved to be an exciting and approachable way to ignite discussion and facilitate awareness in public environments.

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Transfers depicts two performers transferring one full pitcher of milk through the interface of their mouths, to fill an empty pitcher. The action repeats when the first pitcher is emptied and the other is full. This simply choreographed performance evokes tender embraces and the nurture of milk. Yet the transfer of fluids from mouth to mouth and back again adds a layer of repugnance, gently pushing the boundaries of bodily permeability.

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Traces is a renewable sculpture of the artist’s own disembodied kidney, cast in frozen spit. Every two hours a new frozen organ is put on display, only to melt and drip away. The artist carefully traced the topography of her internal organ from a 3D MRI in order to materialize its form outside of her body. Traces is a poetic deterritorialization of medical biotechnologies, organs without bodies and fleshy displacements.

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Data spoken sequentially representing violent Iraqi civilian deaths attributed to the U.S. invasion since 2003.

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