Five Fusebox Shows to Get You Buzzing
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| Description | The annual Austin-born arts festival returns with five days of wonder |
How much personal control would you relinquish, citizen? For art, for understanding, for deeply human communion? Artist Lauren Lee explores social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. And now this: "The Surrogate project began with offering myself in a 40 week performance where I'd serve as a gestational surrogate for a parent who would have an app to monitor and control me 24/7. What I eat, what I do, what thoughts I meditate on, and more. The parent would have complete control over the body in which their baby is growing. What began as a speculative proposal became real when a close friend communicated her desire to enact this with me." And what happened next? McCarthy's multimedia Fusebox presentation, in partnership with UT's School of Design & Creative Technologies and the Museum of Human Achievement, will let you know.
