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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Intellect, 2020.
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The historical context of body and tissue donation is deeply problematic, with patriarchal and colonial narratives. The contemporary context of molecular and genetic biology further complicates issues of bodily donation through narratives of abstraction and extraction. As practitioners working outside the conventional boundaries of scientific study learn the tools and techniques to extract and use bodily materials, they are also learning and challenging the procedures and processes. This article approaches questions of bodily donation through the edited transcript of a conversation between artists who regularly use body fluids and cellular bodily materials in their practice, moderated by Louise Mackenzie and Ilke Turkmendag as part of the Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence in Art & Science conference held online with the support of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2020. The panel challenge the ethical and conceptual assumptions made in biotechnological research and reconsider where the boundaries of the body lie, what ‘authority’ research carries and what choices researchers make when using the bodies of others. The full, unedited panel conversation, including questions from the audience, and an accompanying video of edited interviews with panelists is available online at https://www.loumackenzie.com/offering-the-body.
Author(s): Mackenzie L, Turkmendag I, Burr-Raty I, Hunter W, Jarvis C, Simun M, Tapio H, Zretsky A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Technoetic Arts
Year: 2020
Volume: 18
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 279-297
Online publication date: 28/05/2022
Acceptance date: 15/12/2021
Date deposited: 18/01/2022
ISSN (print): 1477-965X
ISSN (electronic): 1758-9533
Publisher: Intellect
URL: https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00045_1
DOI: 10.1386/tear_00045_1
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