"It forces this sort of person with disposable income, who maybe is already a bit infatuated with wellness culture, to rely upon actually contaminating themselves with that person." #Andra of #PHILTHHAUS on wellness culture & privilege, blood & contamination, around the collective’s “anti-aging, sex-enhancing, and emotion-augmenting” health-food product, developed to explore privilege and exploitation in a globalized economy with ed. #StephKretowicz for AQNB's #ArtistStatementpodcast. Listen to the teaser & subscribe to Patreon to listen in full. 🔗 in bio. The Berlin-based artist discusses the "LYLEX 1.0" fungal compound, infused with the blood of anonymous transgender person undergoing hormonal and dietary modulation therapies. It's first iteration realized the speculative nature of not only the work, but Los Angeles where it was presented—at the blurred border between fiction and reality. Image credit: PHILTH HAUS, LYLEX 1.0 (2022). Detail. Presented by #FeministCenterforCreativeWork (#FCCW) at #HumanResourcesLA. Curated by #MandyHarrisWilliams. Photo by #GildaDavidian. Image courtesy FCCW + the artist.