SPAZIORIVOLUZIONE
SPAZIORIVOLUZIONE
SPAZIORIVOLUZIONE

PERFTORAN
Petr Davydtchenko
✶
15 10 - 15 11 2020
a cura di Adalberto Abbate

The "PERFTORAN" project, the personal exhibition of Petr Davydtchenko curated by Adalberto Abbate, is presented for the first time in Palermo, at Spazio Revolution.
A high-pitched screech, sharp as a blade, is superimposed on the dull sound of shattered bones. With an icy look Petr Davydtchenko consumes a terrible meal. On his forehead he has tattooed the logo of an influential pharmaceutical company, an American giant engaged in testing a vaccine against Covid-19. Despite himself, the little chiroptera atones for more than a million broken lives. It is the sick symbol of an epidemic that is difficult to tame and abjects political and financial speculation.
Far from the ideals of capitalist and globalized culture, Petr Davydtchenko proposes his own antidote to the virus, stating that the BAT vaccine works and that it will be produced in a limited edition. An accessible cure, detached from the profit economy, which represents an effective alternative to the Holy Grail sought by multinationals. In a single act, execrable and thaumaturgical, our claim to freedom and well-being is born and dies.
Perftoran reaches its third stage after the exhibition at Palazzo Lucarini (Perugia) and in the city of Ljubljana (Slovenia). The Perftoran artificial blood, patented in the late 1970s by a Soviet scientist who died in mysterious circumstances - marketed in Russia at unjustifiably inaccessible prices - is the representative sign of the ruthless commercial interests revealed by the big pharmaceutical companies around the new SARS vaccine. CoV 2. Petr Davydtchenko proposes a political denunciation, aestheticized, powerful and subversive, aimed at shaking our consciences from a state of imprudent stupor.
Luisa Montaperto

“During these times, pharmaceutical companies are working tirelessly to produce the Holy Grail for COVID-19 – a vaccine for the virus that has infected over 22 million people and killed nearly 782,335 world-wide. The future welfare of the global population remains in the hands of these profit-driven corporations that can sell the cure to the highest bidder. The virus is a bio-weapon, deployed and manipulated on the geo-political battlefield to destabilise economies. By consuming a live bat – the diseased symbol of our current pandemic – the mythology of our freedom and wellbeing is born and dies in one simple act.”
Petr Davydtchenko, previously removed himself from capitalist culture by living exclusively on roadkill for three years, caring for, cooking and eating only what he discovered on the roadsides of France.
Now he presents Perftoran, a performance series based on the idea that bats can cure COVID-19, starting through the explicit act of eating a live bat. The exhibition that began as a presentation of the bat-eating performance and research into Big Pharma quickly became a space of knowledge exchange and intense experimentation. Deciding to live in the exhibition for it’s entirety, the artist was soon joined by fellow analysts and Perftoran became an ongoing collective scientific research project that overflowed the walls of science, using the freedom of the arts to explore new, groundbreaking territory.

Disclaimer: We are a group of volunteers. We are a group of activists Just as previous vaccines aim to use less harmful or deactivated viruses to confer immunity – we have demonstrated that the real vaccine from SARS- CoV2 virus is yet another, less armful, vaccine derived from BAT. Disease and remedy in one reservoir. In the contemporary world like in any totalitarian government or regime, official information is always politicised by financial and powerful interests. Official information on the SARS - CoV virus is corrupted by large pharmaceutical corporations (eg. Gilead) or is disseminated to benefit the interests of political elites. For example, the infamou Ferguson’ Imperial Colleg report concluded that entire households should stay in isolation for 14 days if any member suffered from SARS - CoV 2 symptoms. Used by power – hungry politicians to implement some of the most draconian, tyrannical, unconstitutional lockdowns in recent history — the Ferguson model, has turne out to be 100% wrong. As is commonly repeated in political circles — never let a crisis go to waste. But it wasn’t the first blunder of the famous epidemiological Ferguson model – it had abysmally missed its projections for the bird flu and the swine flu. Once bitten twice shy? Not in politics at least, as the fearful will always clamour around themystics with the best doublespeak. Big Pharma profits tremendously from this crisis – not just from sales revenue but from massive crony handouts. Additionally given the interest and research amount of patents on biometric implantable devices and the peculiar, preparatory mass Event 201 simulation in October 2019 -- it is forgivable for the tin - hat wearer to believe that this crisis was created or exacerbated in the least for profit. In Petr Davydtchenko’s show Perftoran, the artist imbues medical concepts into contemporary art – by suggesting that the source of a real SARS – CoV 2 vaccine is from whence it came – a bat. Scientific consensus always changes and evolves, and in science, every peer - reviewed viewpoint matters. Davydtchenko explores less - popular medical information but operates on the hopeful premise that the BAT vaccine does exist. His data - points were acquired from large pharmaceutical corporations by illicit means with help from international computer communities and enthusiasts who decided to expose it. Given theaccess to these unpublished, private pharma reports, Davydtchenko presents his research to the government and the public. The contemporary art exhibition, Pe rftoran, claims to have tested the BAT vaccine not only on themselve but on exhibition volunteers and has had positive results in all of the cases. All subjects gained T - cell responses to the novel SARS – CoV 2 virus as a result of administration of the BAT derived vaccine. The action ultimately forces discourse – as most physicians and surgeons often have differing opinions and no single persons’ theories are correct all of the time. It is acceptable in a free society to challenge any theory as both correct and incorrect theories are subject to discretion through the process of public discourse – quite similar to how the mechanisms of peer - review and science work (unlike the problematic Lancet article, based on seeminglymade up data that was used by the World Health Organization to ban research into the 70- year old hydroxychloroquine). Simply put, if science knew everything, it would pack its bags up and stop the pursuit of truth in its entirety.

(Author and test subject: Rustcity D’Amptuille is the pseudonym of an author and computer hacker hailing from Canada)

Petr Davydtchenko (1986) was born in Arzamas-16, a Russian military city. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from Konstfack University Coll Ege of Arts in Stockholm and a Masters in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London. His work was exhibited at the 5th Moscow International Biennial for Young Art, where he received critical acclaim for his work Ascension, later requested by the Museum of Contemporary Art (SMAK) in Ghent. Between 2016 and 2019 he lived on the fringes of society, eating only animals killed on the street. In 2020 he exhibits his Perftoran project at Palazzo Lucarini and in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Petr Davydtchenko is the protagonist of Autonomous, a feature - length documentary, a film directed by Ian Henry, due out in 2020.

SPAZIORIVOLUZIONE

PERFTORAN
Petr Davydtchenko
✶
15 10 - 15 11 2020
a cura di Adalberto Abbate

The "PERFTORAN" project, the personal exhibition of Petr Davydtchenko curated by Adalberto Abbate, is presented for the first time in Palermo, at Spazio Revolution.
A high-pitched screech, sharp as a blade, is superimposed on the dull sound of shattered bones. With an icy look Petr Davydtchenko consumes a terrible meal. On his forehead he has tattooed the logo of an influential pharmaceutical company, an American giant engaged in testing a vaccine against Covid-19. Despite himself, the little chiroptera atones for more than a million broken lives. It is the sick symbol of an epidemic that is difficult to tame and abjects political and financial speculation.
Far from the ideals of capitalist and globalized culture, Petr Davydtchenko proposes his own antidote to the virus, stating that the BAT vaccine works and that it will be produced in a limited edition. An accessible cure, detached from the profit economy, which represents an effective alternative to the Holy Grail sought by multinationals. In a single act, execrable and thaumaturgical, our claim to freedom and well-being is born and dies.
Perftoran reaches its third stage after the exhibition at Palazzo Lucarini (Perugia) and in the city of Ljubljana (Slovenia). The Perftoran artificial blood, patented in the late 1970s by a Soviet scientist who died in mysterious circumstances - marketed in Russia at unjustifiably inaccessible prices - is the representative sign of the ruthless commercial interests revealed by the big pharmaceutical companies around the new SARS vaccine. CoV 2. Petr Davydtchenko proposes a political denunciation, aestheticized, powerful and subversive, aimed at shaking our consciences from a state of imprudent stupor.
Luisa Montaperto

“During these times, pharmaceutical companies are working tirelessly to produce the Holy Grail for COVID-19 – a vaccine for the virus that has infected over 22 million people and killed nearly 782,335 world-wide. The future welfare of the global population remains in the hands of these profit-driven corporations that can sell the cure to the highest bidder. The virus is a bio-weapon, deployed and manipulated on the geo-political battlefield to destabilise economies. By consuming a live bat – the diseased symbol of our current pandemic – the mythology of our freedom and wellbeing is born and dies in one simple act.”
Petr Davydtchenko, previously removed himself from capitalist culture by living exclusively on roadkill for three years, caring for, cooking and eating only what he discovered on the roadsides of France.
Now he presents Perftoran, a performance series based on the idea that bats can cure COVID-19, starting through the explicit act of eating a live bat. The exhibition that began as a presentation of the bat-eating performance and research into Big Pharma quickly became a space of knowledge exchange and intense experimentation. Deciding to live in the exhibition for it’s entirety, the artist was soon joined by fellow analysts and Perftoran became an ongoing collective scientific research project that overflowed the walls of science, using the freedom of the arts to explore new, groundbreaking territory.

Disclaimer: We are a group of volunteers. We are a group of activists Just as previous vaccines aim to use less harmful or deactivated viruses to confer immunity – we have demonstrated that the real vaccine from SARS- CoV2 virus is yet another, less armful, vaccine derived from BAT. Disease and remedy in one reservoir. In the contemporary world like in any totalitarian government or regime, official information is always politicised by financial and powerful interests. Official information on the SARS - CoV virus is corrupted by large pharmaceutical corporations (eg. Gilead) or is disseminated to benefit the interests of political elites. For example, the infamou Ferguson’ Imperial Colleg report concluded that entire households should stay in isolation for 14 days if any member suffered from SARS - CoV 2 symptoms. Used by power – hungry politicians to implement some of the most draconian, tyrannical, unconstitutional lockdowns in recent history — the Ferguson model, has turne out to be 100% wrong. As is commonly repeated in political circles — never let a crisis go to waste. But it wasn’t the first blunder of the famous epidemiological Ferguson model – it had abysmally missed its projections for the bird flu and the swine flu. Once bitten twice shy? Not in politics at least, as the fearful will always clamour around themystics with the best doublespeak. Big Pharma profits tremendously from this crisis – not just from sales revenue but from massive crony handouts. Additionally given the interest and research amount of patents on biometric implantable devices and the peculiar, preparatory mass Event 201 simulation in October 2019 -- it is forgivable for the tin - hat wearer to believe that this crisis was created or exacerbated in the least for profit. In Petr Davydtchenko’s show Perftoran, the artist imbues medical concepts into contemporary art – by suggesting that the source of a real SARS – CoV 2 vaccine is from whence it came – a bat. Scientific consensus always changes and evolves, and in science, every peer - reviewed viewpoint matters. Davydtchenko explores less - popular medical information but operates on the hopeful premise that the BAT vaccine does exist. His data - points were acquired from large pharmaceutical corporations by illicit means with help from international computer communities and enthusiasts who decided to expose it. Given theaccess to these unpublished, private pharma reports, Davydtchenko presents his research to the government and the public. The contemporary art exhibition, Pe rftoran, claims to have tested the BAT vaccine not only on themselve but on exhibition volunteers and has had positive results in all of the cases. All subjects gained T - cell responses to the novel SARS – CoV 2 virus as a result of administration of the BAT derived vaccine. The action ultimately forces discourse – as most physicians and surgeons often have differing opinions and no single persons’ theories are correct all of the time. It is acceptable in a free society to challenge any theory as both correct and incorrect theories are subject to discretion through the process of public discourse – quite similar to how the mechanisms of peer - review and science work (unlike the problematic Lancet article, based on seeminglymade up data that was used by the World Health Organization to ban research into the 70- year old hydroxychloroquine). Simply put, if science knew everything, it would pack its bags up and stop the pursuit of truth in its entirety.