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"Reproduction" - or less inaccurately, the generation of novel forms - need not be imagined in the stodgy bipolar terms of hominids. Donna Haraway
Transformella, Queen of Debris and Surrogate Mother of the Institute for Reproductive Futures takes residence at District. The figure at the center of the exhibition, performances and gatherings is one of the multiple fictive identities and hysterical-subversive drag characters of the artist Johannes Paul Raether. She emerged from Raether’s cyclical performance system Systema identitekturae that since 2009 assembles embodiments, materializations, and visualizations of social paradoxes and catastrophic political actualities.
As a research avatar, Transformella is dedicated to the assertion of the emancipatory potential of biomedical innovation in the field of assisted reproductive technologies. After five years of rambling and appearances in Europe, USA, and India, she’s now returned to Berlin to conclude her cycle of becoming and to issue a version of herself inspired by opensource software (Forking Version 0.0.1 until 2.0.1).