Live-Performance (online) | Reading Group SURROGACY, with Anindita Majumdar

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to a live-streamed Reading Group session on 18 November 2023, from 4 – 6 pm CET. This event is the final event of the Reading Group SURROGACY that met online for four weeks.

In context of our series PERMEABLE BODIES, Art Laboratory Berlin launches a series of online reading groups as fork-out project of UNBORN0x9 shown in the exhibition Matter of Flux. Initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet with Future Baby Production, UNBORN0x9 reflects on the techno-scientific developments in obstetrical medicine, its social, cultural, philosophical and prospective implications and to offer an artistic view of the science in the making. During 2021-2022, UNBORN0x9 was part of the EU platform ART4MED.eu, which focuses on a methodological framework that fosters collaboration between artists, health and biomedical researchers. The online reading group aims to enable cross-border knowledge exchange – across nations, races, genders, real and virtual borders. For the studies in three specific topics –  Ultrasound, Ectogenesis, Surrogacy, the online web platform incorporates reading materials, co-writing pads and online chats as multiple interface entries. Guided by a LEADER with 10 registered READERS, the online reading group aims for in-depth research/studies and motivates public debate on these topics of concern.

The third online reading group with the focus on Surrogacy is ongoing from 16 October 2023 for one month duration, ending with a online performance on 18 November 2023. We have invited Dr. Anindita Majumdar as the LEADER of the Surrogacy reading group.

Project web platform:
UNBORN0x9, http://unborn0x9.labomedia.org