BioAutonomy
EXOglands radical dynamics: fluid, tissues & bloody self-aware enhancement bionicLAB Another Pechblenda Tentacle Klau + Pin
Extreme own-body cognition, Anarchagland (female eyaculation) & male prostate, decolonial anatomy of pleasure. Unveil taboos with DIY biolab techniques, DIT science & medical hacks reverse engineering. A transdisplinary collaboration based on health issues of colectives who have been marginalized by the desensitized treatment of anything deemed promiscuous & contentious. Grassroots sexual politics empowerment.
SOFT CONTROL: Third open call for interdisciplinary projects The duration of the residence will be three weeks, from the 20th of April to the 10th of May 2015.
Contents
Objectives
- Increase self-anatomical knowledge trough pleasure & biomedical research
- Generate accesible tools and technics to enhance sexual health knowledge and practices
- Generate spaces of visibilities and debate about disident sexualities &health rights of sexworkers
- Grassroot empowerment against sexual violence, medical institutions' discrimination and stigmatization, and bioselfdefense (HIV tests, pregnancy tests, anticonceptive techniques, menstrual extraction, hormones and alternative pregnancy interruption information)
- Creation of tools for a basic and functional mobile biolab of diagnosis and check depending of communities needs.
Needs from hangar
basic electronic lab equipment + supplies electronic recycled materials laboratory specimen collection supplies, appropriate webcams to hack them, webmaster support to site, webdomain, access to scientific/academic publications. audio recorder scanner printer (A3 minimum size) and paper
Overview work plan
1ra semana [20-26 abril]
- setup working place & start construction of basic lab & do betatests
- parallel recollect and process info & data about the glands
2da semana [27 abril - 3 mayo]
- visit prostate & uroginecology clinics to be aware of the exams they do and approach they have
- visit biomedical park for deep investigation about the issue
- debug the equipment & continue the hacks
3ra semana [4 - 10 mayo]
- final debug of the lab equipment and develop the mobile format
- workshop & feedback debate with grassroots communities
Tasks
Build MobileLABS
WETWARE equipment:
- Build a full equipment lab & basic mobile one easy to replicate (fluids & blood analysis).
- Intersectional debates & viral reproduction of labs beyond the limits of the residency
3d printing
some links (just for database)
- Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment
- DremelFuge - A One-Piece Centrifuge for Rotary Tools
- DragonFlex — A New 3D Printed Medical Device for Complex Procedures
Infographics
- interactive mapping, Illustrated howtos.
Exocrine Gland: Prostate F/M
CYTOLOGY imagebank
DE-COLONIZE story
AGNOCIDE
Agnodice or Agnodike was the earliest historical, and likely apocryphal, midwife mentioned among the ancient Greeks. She was a native of Athens, where it was forbidden by law for women or slaves to study medicine. According, however, to Hyginus, on whose authority alone the whole story rests, Agnodice disguised herself in men's clothing, and attended the lectures of a physician named Hierophilus, devoting herself chiefly to the study of midwifery and gynaecology
TOYPURINA (1760-1799) was a Tongva/Gabrieliño
Native American medicine woman who opposed the rule of colonization by Spanish missionaries in California, and led an unsuccessful rebellion against them. on suppressedhistories.net
Henrietta Lacks
her cancer cells, taken without her knowledge, are part of many important medical and scientific discoveries. Chances are each of us is the recipient a prevention or cure in which Henrietta Lacks' cells played a role. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a great read that highlights complex social and scientific issues, and the intersection between the two.
Expeditions
- 1: Visit the Prostatic Disease Institute & TEKNOGIN for info, patient/customer principles & bioanalisys.
- 2: Visit PRBB for specific info & bioanalytical service.
- 3: Espacio del Inmigrante workshop & debate with Prostitutas indignadas (street sexworkers activists) and the Movimiento de Vida Independiente (funtional diversity movement)
- 1rst expedition: Visit the Prostatic Disease Institute and TEKNOGIN looking for information, suggestions, feedback, social principles, and depending on the conditions and ofers perform an specific bioanalisys.
http://www.prostatebarcelona.com/index.asp , es un centro de Ginecología, Obstetricia y Medicina reproductiva, http://www.teknogin.com/
- 2nd expedition: Visit the Parque de Investigación Biomédica de Barcelona (PRBB), get information, specific concil, research feedbacks and ask for a specific hitehc bioanalytical service.
http://www.prbb.org/es/ciencia (other options to perform nalysis in case is not reacheable, are the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) or http://www.irbbarcelona.org/es/research the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences) http://www.upf.edu/cexs/
- 3rd expedition: workshop and debate in the "espacio del inmigrante" in the raval with Prostitutas indignadas colective (organized street sexworkers activists) and the Movimiento de Vida Independiente (funtional diversity movement)
https://espaciodelinmigrante.wordpress.com/ https://prostitutasindignadas.wordpress.com http://www.forovidaindependiente.org/
All the process at hackteriaLab wiki as laboratory notebook, editing specific HowTos, writing a narrative article & a scientific paper, generating visual info-graphics, mapping an image web repository with audiolinks to interviews & printing the hole process as a special issue newspaper to spread.
--- GYN http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/fammed/outpatientmanual/vaginitisstds.htm
- hacking toys for medical devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHCT9SOBHs0&feature=youtu.be
Remote Node Helvetia
We'll have a parallel gathering with Gaudi, Sachiko, dusjagr and some other friends...
QCM for home diagnostics
We use a hacked TTL crystal to use as a Quartz Crystal Microbalance...
We'll explore the use of Wild openQCM, a clone of the OpenQCM for various diagnostic tests. Blood coagulation, viscosity of the vaginal mucosa or semen quality.
Some links on blood coagulation:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparin
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15967354
- http://www.google.tl/patents/US20120252043
- Blood Coagulation Thromboplastine Time Measurements on a Nanoparticle Coated Quartz Crystal Microbalance Biosensor in Excellent Agreement with Standard Clinical Methods
Vaginal mucosa, detection of ovaluation
Semen motility
Low-Cost Electrochemical Detection