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EMBEDDED ART
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Impressum
deutsch
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englisch
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Kunst im Namen der Sicherheit
Ausstellung der Akademie der Künste und der Künstlergruppe BBM
Installationen, Performances, Vorträge, Filmreihe
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, Berlin-Mitte
24.01.2009 - 22.03.2009
Di bis So, 11.00 - 20.00 Uhr
jeden Freitag ab 20.00 Uhr: "Bar zur Inneren Sicherheit"
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Project
Sally Gutierrez
ORGAN MARKET
While the body politic of the Western World is being made "safer and safer" through tougher immigration laws and all kinds of high-tech counter terrorist military operations, the "natural", biological body, of western individuals is increasingly invested with a similar technological pursuit of security at all costs- including dreams of longevity or even immortality through rejuvenation techniques and transplants. But at what price? What are the collateral damages? Outside the walls that protect western subjectivities, in a planet of slums, there live millions of expendable, vulnerable bodies.
The Tondo district, near Manila harbour in the Philippines, is one of the poorest and most densely populated urban areas in Asia. In the slums of Tondo people sell their organs to make a living. A cornea or a kidney can be "donated" for as much as US$ 2000. Squalor and transplant biotech converge in a surreal world where science-fictional dystopias have become reality, and the poor are harvested for body parts by the rich.
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