Thu 7 December 2017, 6:30pm

Trust Me, I’m an Artist: DNA Ancestry Testing
Larry Achiampong & David Blandy. 

Ancestry DNA testing has been widely embraced as a new way to understand our identity. But how does this removal of identity from its narrative and social dimension impact on understandings of race and relationships? And what is the scientific validity of this testing?

As part of a new project with Arts Catalyst, artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy are each taking multiple Ancestry DNA tests. In this special event, the artists will present their findings and discuss the bioethical issues with a specially convened ethics committee of medical experts, geneticists and artists, chaired by ethicist Professor Bobbie Farsides.

This event forms part of Dreamed Native Ancestry (DNA), an installation and programme critically addressing and re-thinking contemporary issues around race, migration, biopolitics and culture, through an Afrofuturist science fiction narrative and deep history perspective.

Organised in the framework of Trust Me, I’m an Artist, a European programme examining ethical issues that arise in relation to issues raised by modern biomedicine and genomics and their use by artists. Funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Tickets are £5, booking essential. 

Arts Catalyst
Centre for Art, Science + Technology
74-76 Cromer Street
London WC1H 8DR, UK
www.artscatalyst.org

Arts Catalyst
Centre for Art, Science + Technology