Can we claim ourselves as our property?

THE ORGAN BROKER

Julia Siebert Cáceres

What can we claim as our property? Ourselves? Our identity and physical self? Probably yes, our body – including our organs – belongs to ourselves, we own it, don’t we? So, what happens when these are been taken away? Do we maybe have too high ethical standards if we permit this assumption? And how are we shaping our future trough certain actions or inactions?

“The Organ Broker” might help you to draw conclusions and new impulses to these questions and more. This fictional documentary let’s an organ broker from 2070 talk about her past in which she was able to legalise organ trade and converted this market into a flourishing business. Why don’t you have a look at it and let her tell you about the brutalities she witnessed, the price she is receiving and the opponents she has?

A project made in the course

Space Is the Place

The exploration of the universe is no longer science fiction, but tough real economy. As in the decades of global colonialism, such «expeditions» clearly have territorial conquests and resources in mind. The project uses «future» as a kind of projection foil to mirror speculative ideas and to bring what is being imagined back down to earth and our present.
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