The Sublation Game
Outer Woman, part one
Outer
Woman is an artistic research by Cordula Daus funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): V 797 Richter Programm incl. Richter-PEEK.
In the Applied Practice series of Zentrum Fokus Forschung.
Cordula Daus with Sebastian Bark, [M] Dudeck
and Charlotta Ruth
Language: EN/GER
We are all of women born. What if this fundamental
fact was called into question?
Currently, millions of frozen embryos are being stored in labs all over the world.
Premature lambs are being brought to term in plastic bags. Mice are being created in bioreactors without using any eggs or
sperm. Ectogenesis, the fabrication of a being external to a body, is a reality. Departing from this premise Outer Woman
seeks for new perspectives onto the human reproductive complex.
In The Sublation Game we want to revise
the cultural practice of pregnancy: What elements does it consist of? What is to be preserved; what is dispensable? We approach
this task through Live Action Role Playing, through exercises in anticipation and wondering. Alienation is our method.
The good news is: We are pregnant. The revolution is here. The belly is empty. The Work is ours!
