Here is one way I tried:

and this is some of what happened:

Biological Clock
by Sadie Lune
A multimedia exploration of relationships with time, queer fertility, and community conception

August 5-31
@ The Fab Lab, Muskauer Strasse 49
U 12, Gorlitzer Bhf

Vernissage:
Friday, August 5, 2011
19:00-22:00

Saturday, August 6, 2011
19:00-20:30
Why would I try to make a baby in front of 70 people and call it art?
Come with your questions for a brief presentation on this 2 year project and the final public conception ritual which happened in April in San Francisco

www.sadielune.com/projects/biological-clock
www.thefablab.blogspot.com/

I’ve posted the interview in full on the Biological Clock project page.

Gallery Hours are noon-5pm
Monday 4/25- Friday 4/29 and noon-4 Saturday 4/30
the Gallery is in the same building as Thrift Town and Discount Fabrics, buzz for the Blue Studio

The spring Artgasm show including the installation of Biological Clock along with other art around birth and rebirth will be opening on Friday the 22.

Between April 17th and April 30th Femina Potens will be presenting exhibits & groundbreaking performance art focused around Birth, Conception, the Womb, & Motherhood. Exhibits for our April ArtGasm include Sadie Lune’s Biological Clock, An ongoing piece about time and fertility, which will peak in a queer fertility insemination ritual performance at the gallery. Collaborators for this piece include Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Madison Young will be opening her exhibit of Becoming MILF, which addresses her journey through pregnancy and birth while continuing her work in the adult industry. Ms Young will be doing a live performance piece in the gallery in which she pumps breast milk and hands out breast milk ice cream to the gallery goers. Other exhibits include pieces from Amelia D’Entrone’s photography series After Birth, which explores the emotional and physical adjustments experienced during post-partum. ArtGasm will be taking place at the Michelle Oconnor Gallery located on Mission St at 17th St. Gallery Openings, gallery hours and performance times will be posted shortly.

The installation features work by artists:
Dr. Hal Robins, Annie Sprinkle, Dirt Star, Star St. Germain, Mike Ritch, Jed Bell, Robert Lawrence and Carol Queen, Annie Danger, Drew Dazzle, Apaulo Hart, Rachel Znerold

www.feminapotens.org

http://www.thebluestudio.org/TheMichelleOConnorGallery.htm

Or send $ via paypal to maestrasadie@gmail.com

This is my shameless plea for funding. It’s been brought to my attention that people love videos:

For over a year and a half I’ve worked on Biological Clock, the project that will hopefully turn out to be my piece of life-changing art with the most long-term and fulfilling effects; initiating the new life of my child and delving more deeply into teaching myself to love than I’ve ever known.

My work is mostly self-funded, and this project involves many artists I would love to pay and materials I would love to afford. Not to mention the desired outcome: my child-to-be, and what a statement that in America if you aren’t rich, mentions of love or learning aren’t amongst the first responses when you say you are planning to have a baby, but “babies are expensive” is repeated over and over.

Please help me live my dreams in life and art by donating a little summin’ summin’ to the Biological Clock project. This is a chance to give some $ towards risky earnest art made with intention an passion, to scream a big yes to practicing intimacy and connection as an antidote to virtuality, to offset the imbalances of wages for queers, sex workers, women and artists, and to support and promote efforts towards love, faith and hope in a time and place where cynicism and suffering are much easier to sell.

I am so grateful for the beautiful absurd life that I get to live with a lot of help from some very generous people, and I would love to get a chance to be grateful to you for your help realizing this dream. Thanks.

Take the Queer Fertility Survey!
Each survey takes 5-10 minutes, and is an interactive input part of the Biological Clock project, inspired by the kinds of questions I’ve been asked or asked myself since the beginning of the project around time and fertility, my desire to get some anecdotal data, and an atmospheric sense of some of the current general feelings around issues of time and queer fertility, especially from people who identify as queer.

I think taking surveys is fun, I’m interested in using surveying as an artistic media to gather impressions from the wider world and to also inspire further thought and conversation around topics I’m curious about. I also think that it is an inherently biased tool, and as an artist I’m interested in acknowledging and working with the bias, grasping a momentary impression or conceptual trend in a likely insular population, as opposed to fighting it in the interest of objectivity.

This is also a way of working through the barrage of questions and interrogations around my means, intentions, abilities, motivations etc. that I am frequently subjected to when I let people know that I (a queer, single, sex-working, low-income, weirdo, artist) want to have a baby.
I ‘d love to hear your responses! Much thanks to my wifey Irene who co-developed the survey with me.

Queer Fertility Survey #1: Click here to take survey

Queer Fertility Survey #2:Click here to take survey
 

I just added the photos and a description from this fall’s birthday performance, 32 actions: Teaching Myself to Love to the Performance page. Since the piece was in November and the page is arranged chronologically, you may have to scroll down a bit to find it. Enjoy!

and there’s one of my wives….