IMMINENT DEMISE
Film, mixed media sculpture
2025
C.N.Y.K Studios, Ypsilanti, MI
made possible through generous funding from the Arts Initiative at University of Michigan
“Imminent demise” is defined by the National Library of Medicine as a category of futility describing an intervention in a patient who can be expected to die prior to hospital discharge. For example, an intervention on a patient with multi-system organ failure that may improve the function of one system can be considered futile if the patient is expected to die soon, regardless of the success of that intervention or the number of times it is applied.
“Qualitative futility” refers to an intervention that, even if successful, will result in an outcome of insufficient or unacceptable functional status. Palliative, non-curative procedures can make a small extension of a limited lifetime more comfortable.
People, their bodies, and their diseases are complicated and exist in contexts of care, finance, time, legislation, and spirituality that further complicate them.
In the video piece, Imminent Demise, the artist performs palliative procedures on three terminal fruits.
Photos by Andy Maticorena Kajie
The framed images that appear in Altar to the Immortal Orange contain AI generated backgrounds.
“Qualitative futility” refers to an intervention that, even if successful, will result in an outcome of insufficient or unacceptable functional status. Palliative, non-curative procedures can make a small extension of a limited lifetime more comfortable.
People, their bodies, and their diseases are complicated and exist in contexts of care, finance, time, legislation, and spirituality that further complicate them.
In the video piece, Imminent Demise, the artist performs palliative procedures on three terminal fruits.
Photos by Andy Maticorena Kajie
The framed images that appear in Altar to the Immortal Orange contain AI generated backgrounds.
