"Re:Production - Suggestions from the Animal Kingdom" is a collaborative animation piece between artist Christa Donner and I involving a series of drawings, video, found footage, and computer animations of "alternate birthing plans."

This project draws upon reproductive models borrowed from other organisms, including the Peach Aphid, Surinam Toad, Hydra, and the Slipper Limpet to create new visions of human reproduction during a time when fertility drugs and genetic modification seem to make all sorts of impossible things viable. In re-imagining the capacity of the human body through other organisms, we consider alternate sites for pregnancy, embryos within embryos within embryos, and other concepts borrowed from alternate biologies. Indeed, these strange and various forms of reproduction have been around for millions and millions of years.

What seems to us like science fiction are processs that evolution has been elaborating on in many thousands of ways throughout the living world.

The piece was exhibited at SPACES Gallery in Cleveland OH, January 2008 as part of the art/science show Phenomena(l).

(apologies for the low-resolution version streaming here...(run time ~ 6min.)))