Questions concerning not only current and future reproduction technologies but also the age-old Homunculus idea are the point of departure for the works shown here. How will new technologies inscribe themselves in our reproduction?

 

thur 14.3. 19:00h
Primer II:: Reproduction!=Copy
AV Installation by Rebekah Wilson
opening: Rebekah Wilson
opening hours: 19. 3. – 11. 4. 2019 di, mi, do 15h – 19h

Primer II is the second installment of Rebekah Wilson‘s non-linear, interactive series involving sound, digital media and text. Assuming the role of a bio-technologist, you will explore the evolution of reproduction technology while exploring a narrative of forking paths.

 

thur 14.3. 19:20h
Homunculus Box
Mixed Media
installation by Norbert Math
opening: Norbert Math
opening hours: 19. 3. – 11. 4. 2019 di, mi, do 15h – 19h

Homunculus lives in a small vessel, an artificially created being made of sperm and rotting horse dung. His transparency has to do with the fact that he is only half born. He exists in an intermediate realm, waiting to become completely manifest. He dreams of the future. There is no difference between the possible and the real. Everything that can be, is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

thur 14.3. 19:40h
Kinderbastelstube
Künstliche Reproduktion und das Spiel mit dem Leben
presentation by Andreas Rathmanner

What should keep us from making the perfect baby if we can choose not only the color of its hair and eyes but also its talents and personality? In the future, we will no longer have to carry our babies inside our bodies; instead, we can let them grow in an artificial womb – we can plan every detail and coordinate it to perfectly fit into our work schedules. What will that do to us?

 

 

 

thur 14.3. 20:00h
Maternal instinct vs. Mother nature
lecture by Sairica Rose

You Live. Love. Work. Wait. But you can still have babies… right?
IVF is a multi-billion-dollar factory of hope, where Willy Wonka wears a lab coat and the world’s top scientists develop cutting-edge techniques to (literally) freeze our biological clocks. From genetic editing to AI-enhanced egg selection and embryo recycling… let’s look at the future of humanity.

 

 

 

 

 

thur 14.3. 20:30h
Future Baby
a film by Maria Arlamovsky

Maria Arlamovsky travels around the world visiting doctors, scientists, and technicians in clinics and sterile laboratories and accompanies couples who want to have a baby, egg donors, and surrogate mothers to their examinations and procedures. She listens to the proponents and skeptics and talks with the first generation of test-tube babies.

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