Dear BioDaddy,
A performance lecture confronting the question of how one’s body holds the familial and ancestral in the face of technological interventions.
‘Dear BioDaddy,’ confronts the complexities of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), their violent histories and unexpected consequences, particularly within Scandinavia. As a TechnoChild (born via ART) the artist is entangled in the biopolitical webs of these realities and curate a performance space to encounter and embrace the paradoxes that manifest in ideas of the familial: it asks questions of ancestry in the face of uncertainty.
The work is a performance lecture which decomposes into fictioning of ecosexual utopias, following a pilgrimage to inseminate the islands of the Earth in search of expanded kinships and alternative forms of community building based on technological commonality and home-making in a beyond-human world.
Performer: Stefanía Ólafsdóttir (LAPS/ Live Art and performance studies, artistic thesis project for a Master of Arts , TeM)
In collaboration with New Performance Turku Biennale.
Arrival and accessibility information
Vanha Viinatehdas is located in Manila’s courtyard (Itäinen Rantakatu 64 B) and there is a free disabled parking space in the inner yard.
All the toilets as well as disabled toilet are located in the lobby and are gender-neutral.
The language of the performance is English.
‘Dear BioDaddy,’ confronts the complexities of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), their violent histories and unexpected consequences, particularly within Scandinavia. As a TechnoChild (born via ART) the artist is entangled in the biopolitical webs of these realities and curate a performance space to encounter and embrace the paradoxes that manifest in ideas of the familial: it asks questions of ancestry in the face of uncertainty.
The work is a performance lecture which decomposes into fictioning of ecosexual utopias, following a pilgrimage to inseminate the islands of the Earth in search of expanded kinships and alternative forms of community building based on technological commonality and home-making in a beyond-human world.
Performer: Stefanía Ólafsdóttir (LAPS/ Live Art and performance studies, artistic thesis project for a Master of Arts , TeM)
In collaboration with New Performance Turku Biennale.
Arrival and accessibility information
Vanha Viinatehdas is located in Manila’s courtyard (Itäinen Rantakatu 64 B) and there is a free disabled parking space in the inner yard.
All the toilets as well as disabled toilet are located in the lobby and are gender-neutral.
The language of the performance is English.