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Predavanje i prezentacija projekta subRosa

Faith Wilding i Hyla Willis:

Tactical Cyberfeminism: subRosa's Site-U-ational Performances

2. 6. 2008. u 12 sati u EV. 3

Predavanje je obavezno za sve studente dramaturgije, te studente koji slušaju kolegije docenta Gorana Sergeja Pristaša i docenta Marina Blaževića, a dobrodošli su i svi drugi studenti ADU.

subRosa's collective art practice creates critical discourse and embodied knowledge about the intersections of information and biotechnologies in women's lives, work, and bodies... Focus of the collective's projects range from examining the social, economic, and health effects of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the medicalization of sex and gender, to the world-wide trafficking of organs, stem-cells, and bodies; womfoen's labor in the biotech industries; cloning, genetic engineering, and patenting of animals and plants. subRosa's projects rethink feminist issues of the body and labor as they are being changed by pancapitalist globalization of markets, the service economy, migration, trafficking of women's bodies, and new bio-medical-genetic technologies. In this lecture, subRosa will present and discuss examples of our "Site-U-ational" performance practice that often uses humor, irony, parody, simulation, viewer participation and radical pedagogy as a form of art practice.

subRosa is a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers using bio-art and site-uational performance to explore and critique the intersections of information and biotechnologies in women's bodies, lives, and labor. subRosa produces performances, installations, workshops, contestational campaigns, publications, media interventions, and public forums. Recent subRosa performances/installations include: "Out-RAGE-us Joy" (installation for "The Way That We Rhyme" YBCA, San Francisco, 2008) "Yes Species" (a performative tableau presented at Cyberfem: Feminism in the Electronic Landscape, EACC, Spain, 2006, and at Intersex 1-0-1, NGBK, Berlin, 2005); "Love is Strong as Death: A Convivial Feast" (for inTransit: From Object to Site, Brown University, Oct. 2006); "Can You See Us Now?" (installation, The Interventionists, MASSMoCA, 2004-05); "Cell Track: The Appropriation of Life Materials" (installation for BioDifference, Biennial of Electronic Arts, Perth, Au. 2004); "Epidermic! DIY Cell Lab" (performance/installation for YOUGenics 3, Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, 2004-05); "International Markets of Flesh," (performance in Media/performance festivals in Mexico: Merida, 2005, Mexico City, 2003). SubRosa books and pamphlets include: Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices (NY, Autonomedia, 2002); Yes Species (Sabrosa Books, English and German 2005, Spanish and English 2006.

Current subRosa members: Faith Wilding, Hyla Willis. subRosa home page: www.cyberfeminism.net