Location: Education Space, 2nd floor of C-LAB Art Space V (No. 177, Section 1, Jianguo South Road, Daan District, Taipei City)
Lecturers (for further information please see below): Charlotte Jarvis (Participating Artist), Dr. Patricia Saragüeta (Collaborating Scientist), Victoria Hsu (Lawyer, Supervisor of TAPCPR), Yu-Chieh Yang (Obstetrician & Gynecologist)
The event is one of the public events of the Taipei Digital Art Festival “Island of Chimera”. This event begins with the issues behind the exhibited work of the participating artist Charlotte Jarvis, who tries to create an “collaborative uterus” composed of multiple human cells in the laboratory. The four panelists – the artist, the cooperating Argentine scientist Patricia Saragüeta, lawyer Victoria Hsu who has long been concerned about gender human rights issues and advocates diversified families from a legal perspective, and Dr. Yu-Chieh Yang, an obstetrician and gynecologist who has promoted homeopathic maternity care for many years, are invited to share their respective practices and have a discussion to deepen the diverse meanings of the artworks.
Notes
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Speakers
Charlotte Jarvis
Charlotte Jarvis works between art and science. She has recorded music onto DNA, seen her heart beat outside of her body and grown her own tumor. Charlotte’s work explores the future of reproduction and the body as a liminal space – a site for transformation, hybridisation and magic. Charlotte is currently engaged in making “female” sperm with scientists in Leiden, a “collaborative uterus” with a team in Argentina and an artificial embryo model “parented” by an artificial intelligence in Denmark. Charlotte has exhibited her work in twelve international solo shows and over one hundred group exhibitions. She currently lectures at The Royal College of Art in London.
Patricia Saragüeta
Dr. Patricia Saragüeta has a degree and PhD in Chemistry. She is a CONICET Researcher and Professor at the Department of Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, UBA. She is a scientist and artist, interested in genomics, cellular and molecular biology. She works for the meeting of art and science both in her work and at the institutional level. She has published three books of poetry, several articles and many essays.
Victoria Hsu
Victoria Hsu, Attorney-at-Law, is the co-founder of the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR). Her team has won several landmark cases for LGBTI+ rights in Taiwan, including the marriage equality case in 2017 and the first case for a trans person to change their legal gender without surgery in 2021. Victoria devotes long-term attention and efforts to the gender equality movement in Taiwan through legislative, judicial, and social advocacy, lobbying, and policy monitoring. She is focusing her efforts on are: queer reproductive justice, cross-strait same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination, trans rights, and protections for unmarried families.
Yu-Chieh Yang
An obstetrician and gynecologist, and a Gentle Birth activist. Caring about gender issues, women’s autonomy, children rights and education reform. She had also studied and awarded in the field of reproductive medicine. Now she is affiliated to Fu-Jen University Hospital and Union Women’s Hospital, and participates in Moni’s Classroom, the prenatal education studio and midwifery clinic. She had two water birth and home birth experiences. And through a new perspective towards life and how human body works, she began to learn about traditional Chinese medicinal phylosophy and biotensegrity. Recently, she became a certified Hypnobirthing® educator. She also participates in training in Pre- and Perinatal psychology, Ayurvedic care and Yoga Nidra facilitator, hoping to prepare the birthing families in both physical and mental aspects.
