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Electrode cables are attached to the leg muscles that are attached to the connector on the head.
Opened up between the ribs and then pulled apart… a coronary artery is tied off to the heart… the ribs and skin are sewn together.
DNA altered.
Eyes sewn shut.
Toes cut off.
Vomiting.
Corrosive chemical solutions.
Surgical procedures.
Amputated about 3 cm of the tail.
Skull catheters directly into the brain.
Suspended by the tail (tail suspension test)(TST).
Struggling to get out of there.
Infection.
Abscess / tumor.
In the installation you can see a rat that has escaped from a plexiglas cage, this is supposed to symbolize freedom. There is also a blind rat with bloodshot eyes and a deaf one with sewn-together ears, this is supposed to symbolize human ignorance and tendency to turn a blind eye to things that are difficult: See nothing, hear nothing.
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