Surgical Training is Informal and Harms No Humans 

No human subjects will be involved in the surgical training and no eggs (ovum) or oocytes/zygotes will be involved in TTTfellows. Instead, the technology involved ((i.e. ultrasound, microinjector or laparoscope) will be used with state of the art medical manikins, speculative future artificial wombs and/or analogical organisms/objects. Beyond the hands-on practice, lectures, protocols, VR videos, how-to videos and performative metaphors will be the extent of the skill-share. It is expected that the participants of the final art and science collaboration will convey some of the basic principles, practices, materials, methods as well as risk factors, bioethical conundrums and future potentials and social complications related to Oocyte Pickup. 

Selection Procedure

The organization of these events is an equal opportunities initiative and ensures that its selection procedures by a qualified international selection committee do not discriminate on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age, gender identity or sexual orientation. Selection criteria are the proposed project and relevant experience to the object of the call demonstrated in the application form. 

Fee Procedure

Upon selection, participants will be requested to provide a certificate of tax residency and this may additionally need apostille (if the country of issue is a party to the Hague Apostille Convention) or to be legalized via the chain authentication process (if the country of issue is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention) as well as certified (notarized) translation. The fee’s payment will be processed asap after arrival in Greece and candidates are requested to be able to provide for their traveling and other expenses. 

Social Ethics

As part of the normal process of TTTlabs BFBC NR-RR skillshares and/or discussions biomedia and body in performance, actions and experiments may contain explicit descriptions of, or may advocate simulations of, or experimental enactment of unorthodox behavior. Should your sensibilities be offended at any time, you are free to leave the site without judgment. Feral Labs are social experiments dedicated to a balance between respect for difference and free expression in comments and acts. Temporary autonomy comes with experimental openness and can lead to conflict that should be resolved in non-dogmatic ways. Due to the nature of the forbidden and the aesthetics of liminality, fluid non-normative ethics allows for acceptable breadth in the range of human behavior.

Accommodation

As a TTTfellow, while in Corfu town, you will be hosted in a self-catering facility and you will have access to the students’ and staff canteen as well. During TTTlabs food and lodging are rustic and there is an expectation that food production and clean up are a group collaborative activity. There will be a breakfast and dinner cook and all participants are expected to contribute to some preparation and cleanup before or after meals. Lunch is self-catering and all collaborators are expected to bring some of their own sustenance and share at will.

Bees and Health

Upon acceptance health eccentricities will be requested. There are bee hives on site. If you are allergic to bees, it is suggested you do not attend this camp. If you do attend, it is at your own risk and you should provide your own anaphylactic shock remedy injection methods and make sure our safety officer knows where they are located.

Beach Proximity

TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp is not on the beach. It is near the beach but may be a 20 minute drive or a two hour walk. We will visit the beach twice as a group for performance enhancement. 

COVID 

Participants are required to follow the official protocol on COVID-19 that is given on Corfu Island by the Greek Health Authorities  at the time of residency. 

Documentation

The activities developed during TTTfellows will be documented for archiving and dissemination purposes.