Culture Exchange is an ongoing project which involves donating blood at any new location visited (when possible, according to the rules an regulations in that location). The project started at a portable blood donation tent in the center of Vilnius, Lithuania,during 2009 but that instance went undocumented.
Each instance of donating blood is a performative action where donated blood is a symbolic exchange for the regional culture with the expectation that, by giving blood, individual lives will be saved in the local population and individual lives contribute to the collective culture, therefor the vitality of the local culture is boosted when blood is donated. Culture ain’t free. |