I want to do my presentation on something involving biotech. I have been doing a lot of reading but I am still not sure which direction I want to go with it, there is so much information out there right now. However, I have found one artist of interest. Artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, in his piece, Banks in Pink and Blue, he displays two cryogenic sperm banks containing sex-selected sperm samples. He one of the many artist interested in the ever-growing technology that allows people to pre-select a baby’s gender or determine the possible health of the not yet conceived child by determining if they are at risk of genetically influenced disease. Here is the link to the article
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2000/05/36288
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I am confused as to whether we as a class decided to do strictly feminist issues or whether we can focus on any body-related art. That email we got a few weeks ago from the people that'd been talking with Dr. Ryan contained a proposed mission statement of the following: "For example: This symposium aims at identifying uses of the body in contemporary art relating to the beginning of the Feminist Art Movement. Through exploring varying media and approach to the subject material, we strive to weave the threads, the connective underlying tissue that unites women in their goals and efforts to express feminist concerns."
I don't know if we ever voted to agree on this, but if so, you might have to find ties to feminist concerns with this artist and this work. Or maybe talk about male feminists (if there are such a thing)?
Have you found any artist statement with this particular artist's intent?
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