Stefania Olafsdottir Dear BioDaddy,
Do you also love ART (assisted reproductive technologies) ?
w/ Bâtard
Ticketing info soon-ish <3
Dear BioDaddy, confronts the complexities of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), their violent histories and unexpected consequences, particularly within Scandinavia. It is a call for new kinship which seeks new parameters to define who and how to love.
As a TechnoChild (born via ART) the artist is entangled in the biopolitical webs of these realities and curate a performance space to encounter and embrace the paradoxes that manifest in ideas of the familial: it asks questions of ancestry in the face of uncertainty.
The work is a performance lecture which decomposes into fictioning of ecosexual utopias, following a pilgrimage to inseminate the islands of the Earth in search of expanded kinships and alternative forms of community building based on technological commonality and home-making in a beyond-human world.
about
As an interdisciplinary artist working with water as point of departure, Stefanía Ólafsdóttir dives into the material and political implications of bodily fluids and their biopolitical complexities. Olafsdottir sees a future in which we will have to radically rethink our relationship to nature and our place in her theatre, now that the stage is crumbling. Manifesting through staged speech performances and solo expeditions with the earth, Olafsdottir wants to play with this future, to daydream into new possibilities, new kinships.
“Occupying my praxis are concerns for xenofeminist thinking, post-human dreaming and queer fictioning as I delve into my personal herstory and (dis?)entangle the forms of (re)productive labour which make my being possible.”
Stefania first presented Dear BioDaddy, in 2023 as artistic thesis project for a Master of Arts in Live Art and Performance Studies at Uniarts Helsinki, and more recently at the New Performance Turku Biennale 2025.
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