Artistic Projects
Anticipating Reproduction: Rethinking Reproductive Journeys through Assemblages of Care (Netherlands 2022)
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Anticipating Reproduction is a speculative exploration into what the everyday experiences of reproducing extracorporeally might be. Drawing on the idea that reproduction is alway-already facilitated by assemblages of human and non-human actors, this project brought together industrial designers, biotechnologists, birth workers, lawyers, and artists in workshop settings, to engage with this idea and consider the processes and services that might arise in such a world. The discourses from these workshops were captured through the various objects found in the fictional waiting room of the imagined entity called ReproPharm Ltd. The project was exhibited at the Dutch Design Week 2022, as part of the Design Academy Eindhoven’s Graduation Show and at Konsthall C in Stockholm in 2023, as part of the exhibit entitled ‘The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies’, Co-curated by TOK and Ulrika Flink.
Anticipating Reproduction is a speculative exploration into what the everyday experiences of reproducing extracorporeally might be. Drawing on the idea that reproduction is alway-already facilitated by assemblages of human and non-human actors, this project brought together industrial designers, biotechnologists, birth workers, lawyers, and artists in workshop settings, to engage with this idea and consider the processes and services that might arise in such a world. The discourses from these workshops were captured through the various objects found in the fictional waiting room of the imagined entity called ReproPharm Ltd. The project was exhibited at the Dutch Design Week 2022, as part of the Design Academy Eindhoven’s Graduation Show and at Konsthall C in Stockholm in 2023, as part of the exhibit entitled ‘The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies’, Co-curated by TOK and Ulrika Flink.
Investigation a Gestational Care Facility (Netherlands 2021)
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‘An ‘ART’ Revolution: Procreation and Kinship in a Gestational Care Facility in the Netherlands’ is a fictional academic paper, set in a world where reproductive technologies, which assist in processes of conception and birthing have become increasingly inventive as well as readily available. The paper, drawing on both existing as well as retro-speculative studies, texts and theoretical concepts, seeks to explore the notion of a child-to-be as symbolic of the idea of birthing futures. Through a speculative ethnography of the language used to understand reproductive technologies in an alternative present, the paper dives into the ‘promissory’ role played by reproductive technologies and substances, while questioning normative notions of ‘desired futures’. The project was presented in Plurality University Network’s U+Zine on the thematic of ‘Health’ and the 2021 EPIC Conference.
‘An ‘ART’ Revolution: Procreation and Kinship in a Gestational Care Facility in the Netherlands’ is a fictional academic paper, set in a world where reproductive technologies, which assist in processes of conception and birthing have become increasingly inventive as well as readily available. The paper, drawing on both existing as well as retro-speculative studies, texts and theoretical concepts, seeks to explore the notion of a child-to-be as symbolic of the idea of birthing futures. Through a speculative ethnography of the language used to understand reproductive technologies in an alternative present, the paper dives into the ‘promissory’ role played by reproductive technologies and substances, while questioning normative notions of ‘desired futures’. The project was presented in Plurality University Network’s U+Zine on the thematic of ‘Health’ and the 2021 EPIC Conference.