Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance
sister sylvester
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Time & Date
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Duration
60 min
Photo: Ava Mazumdar
Using DNA extracted from a hat worn by actors in Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble, “Drinking Brecht” is an automated laboratory performance and illustrated essay that explores the past and present of genetics and synthetic biology. A documentary that you can drink, the work ingests worn-out scientific narratives and turns them into a Marxist-feminist ritual and a celebration of science for the people.
Artist: sister sylvester
Year created: 2024
Country: UK
Medium: Installation
Credits
Produced by
sister sylvester
Co-produced by
Onassis ONX
Co-commissioned by
IDFA Doc Lab
Written, directed, and narrated by
sister sylvester
Score and Experiment Narration
DM R
Percussion
Ellery Trafford
Audio Mixing
Murat Çolak
Color Grading
Nathan Saucier
Installation Design
sister sylvester & Tjip Telman
Programming for Lighting
Ahmet Kizilay
Dramaturgy
Andrew Kircher
Additional Fly Cinematography
Sophia Lisco, Rachel Ganz, Morgan Harrison, Pere Jaeger
Studio Manager
Marin Day
Microscope sponsor
Dinolite
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