Then she has to begin to articulate her own ethics and politics around these issues. And there are certain tactics and methods for eliciting conversation among the participant/performers.

MegaBytes Tasties at Expo EmmaGenics An Expo EmmaGenics consumer product. Expo EmmaGenics Trade Show. Installation/performance at Arts Intermediale, Mainz, Germany

In Sex and Gender Education in the Biotech Century, we use the model of the American sex education class room which has also been invaded by propagandistic market forces. (Here we note that, just as some artists have begun to form problematic alliances with biotech corporations, so educational institutions at every level have accepted corporate funding in exchange for strategic product placement. (Remember the child who was sent home from school a few years ago for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke day?)

The underlying lesson for the day is how enhanced, positive eugenic reproduction through ART is increasingly being normalized by infertility clinics and biotech companies. 

In our Knowing Bodies show at the Purnell Center for the Arts we tackled the subject of construction and re-construction of the body, gender, and sexuality through new biotech. Constructa/vulva allowed people to playfully reconstruct a large soft sculpture of female anatomy. In so doing they not only learned the terminology and biology of women's genitalia, they also directly participated in the idea of the reconstruction and deconstruction of the body. A video, vulva de/reconstructa about genital plastic surgery also played in the gallery providing further information.

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