Tactical
Cyberfeminism:
An Art and Technology of Social Relations
By
subRosa
SITUATIONAL INFORMATION
THEATER
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The participatory theatre model that we employ is situational because we use it to build a particular audience, or determine its shape in relation to the particular context and audience. We use different media to reach different audiences. For example, Expo EmmaGenics
was performed at Intermediale Art Happens Festival in Mainz, Germany; here subRosa staged a three-hour American style commercial Trade Show, to "familiarize Europeans with the convenient consumer marketing of Repro-Tech now available to Americans."
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Expo EmmaGenics Trade
Show
Installation/performance at Arts Intermediale, Mainz, Germany, addressing the naturalization and normalization of Advanced ReproTech through the rhetoric of "consumer choice." 2001.
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The information theater taught and demystified some of the science involved in ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies), and allowed people to directly experience and participate in the generally unspoken social codes for normalization of new technological processes, and revealed the authoritarian structures and economic coercion that operate in every day life. The audience was primarily artists along with some local residents and tourists.
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Human Caviar
at Expo EmmaGenics
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For a recent performance at Bowling Green State University, US Grade AAA Premium
Eggs, we adapted this module to target the audience of students who are being invited to participate in the Flesh Machine through the "donation" (sale) of their genetically desirable gametes - eggs and sperm cells. We wanted to point out the New Eugenic values at work behind the stolen rhetoric of "choice." We wanted to point out the connection of this commodification of the body in the global medical industry - to the global traffic in human organs and tissues. While the traffic in human organs is officially illegal in most countries, it is central to the global medical industry, and in it, the 'flow' of organs goes from 'Third 'to 'First' world, from poor to rich, from female to male, etc.
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