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Impossible Genetic Samples - A Biosktech |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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This piece is a project I did for Jordan Crandall's seminar "Imaging the Self", in which I had one week to respond to the Lacanian concept of "The Act". It's a first attempt at creating bioart. It consists of four genetic samples from myself including blood, saliva and mouth tissue, labeled in a ways which represent parts of myself but which are not accepted medical labels. I say it is a sketch because I only had a few days to develop the piece. I also see this as a creative form of resistance to genetic and biological determinism. These are all genetic samples of myself, labeled in various ways that are "impossible" in the present medical/scientific environment.
pre-op transexual - would imply someone who is going to get Gender Confirmation Surgery in the future, but it "impossible" in that it may never occur, referring to the inaccessibility and unknowability of the future. This is also a reflection on my current process of deciding to proceed with medical means of transitioning or not.
multiple subjects single extraction - refers to the conception of the individual self as multiple, but you would never see this reflected in a medical analysis. "Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd... We are no longer ourselves... We have been aided, inspired, multiplied." - Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
genderqueer/transgender age: 31 - in contrast to the way that most medical forms only show two options for sex, male or female, and no choices for gender.
blue moogle - this is a kind of avatar in Second Life which I use, so this is a genetic sample from a Second Life avatar.
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