Currently, however, this movement has been eroded, and we now face a situation in which women's bodies have become the sites of new rationalized and eugenic bio genetic reproductive and medical procedures which represent a potentially even greater and more subtle colonization of women's bodies than ever before.

subRosa believes that resistance, critique, and activating the public to understand the processes and implications of advanced repro-genetic technologies are vitally important. As cyberfeminists and artists we are using the framework of participatory performance as an information theatre of pedagogical art that models various tactics for intervening and commenting on the seductive representations of the flesh machine. The powerful desire for rational control over non-rational life forces must be countered and de-constructed. Scientific representations promising genetic success, reproductive enhancement, and immortality must be de-coded and processed through a corrective lens that reveals their hidden distortions and will to power.

Accordingly we've developed our public information theatre to dispute and disrupt the unquestioned authority of private ART theatres. While subRosa is by no means anti-technology, we do approach technology critically and argue that some technologies should not be further deployed until far more testing of long-term biological and environmental consequences has taken place. By informing themselves about the reprogenetic sciences, deploying their knowledge and expertise, withholding their bodies and body parts, refusing to act as self-interested individuals and organizing in solidarity, women scientists, doctors, nurses, educators, artists, data entry workers, day care workers, computer scientists, ecologists, nutritionists, etc. could take the lead in shaping ART's future development and use. It seems reasonable to demand that such life-altering technologies should only be employed under the scrutiny of full public information disclosure, and a thorough understanding, and debate regarding their implications and consequences. subRosa's tactical works are aimed at helping to initiate this debate. subRosa also wants to join other groups to issue a call for complete disclosure of all commercial interests and involvement of biotech and drug companies in scientific R and D of genetically altered life-forms.

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