Installation and workshop in collaboration with Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM team
28th to 29th of September 2018, at Sodų 4 project space in Vilnius
The installation and workshop invite participants to self-detect mutated sequences of the human genome. The theme is conceptually wrapped and speculated about in the toolkit “How I prepare myself to be cloned.” The toolkit provides a manual, a tutorial, and the do it yourself tools to execute three experiments: an extraction and amplification of a DNA sample, gel electrophoresis, and DNA fingerprinting.
Referring to recent experiments, including editing of DNA in embryonic cells, cloning Scottish Blackface sheep, altering one’s own genome, and artistic questioning, the event hypothesizes that, in the future, embryonic cells may be manipulated at a do it yourself level and mythological hybrids like Pegasus, centaurs, mermaids, and minotaurs may become real. The question being raised is how far analysis of one’s own DNA and do it yourself gene therapy, including the genetic modifications of human embryos, should be tolerated.
Organized by: Institutio Media, the Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM team
Supported by: Vilnius City Municipality, Nordic Council of Ministers, Vilnius University Life Sciences Center, TOP Association for the Promotion of Cultural Practice, Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association.
Thanks to: The Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM team: Miglė Kalvaitytė, Auksė Gaižauskaitė, Monika Kazlauskaitė, and Ugnė Kasperavičiūtė
Video: Brigita Kasperaitė.