Communities of Ice with Ona Bros

Communities of Ice is a meeting space designed for people involved in the process of raising children and/or with children whose fertilisation involved the use of “donated” genetic material (egg, sperm or embryo).

Over the course of the three day workshop we will examine the rhetoric, both scientific and popular, surrounding genetics and how it influences our understanding of life, bonds and relational ecosystems. Our aim is to promote an environment where new discourses may emerge, one that goes beyond essentialist and transactional, capitalist discourses. A space to test out nomenclatures and ways of naming experience that invoke affirmative power without obscuring responsibilities. Invoking collective narratives from embodied knowledge and embracing a mutual recognition of children’s vocal patterns.

The purpose of the workshop is, with the aid of Tinta Fina, to create a publication in the form of a game or story about fertilisation with alien genetic material (real or imaginary). The planning and designing stages of the publication will help stimulate conversation among participants in the workshop.

participants

Ona Bros

Tinta Fina

this activity is part of

Geopoetics

activity

27.10.2023 – 27.10.2023