Iron Stream is a performative installation that examines the blood industry as an opaque capitalist infrastructure where technology, morality, and war intersect.

Blood donations are commonly promoted through the moral argument that “blood saves lives”. While the life-saving capacity of blood transfusions is well established, Iron Stream asks a more complicated question: whose lives are saved, and at the cost of which others? The manufacturing of consent for political projects, including in the blood industry, often relies on moral frameworks. Morality bridges the individual and the collective, unmasking a confusing relationship between personal willpower and the capitalist instrumentalization of individual human choice.

A necropolitical mechanism is maintained not only through the strategic deployment of moral narratives, but also through the fetishization of technology. Iron Stream evokes autonomous life, and displays the contemporary entanglement of war, the erotic, and the capitalist death drive: a mechanism of increasing efficiency and control.

By activating uncanny and sci-fi-inspired technological objects, visually reminiscent of medical machines, Iron Stream exposes the connections between the individual materiality of blood and broader systems of power. It presents a continuous choreography between bodies, fluids, and machines that discloses the vicious management of life and death under capitalism.