@SecondOpinion

One of subRosa’s first projects as a group, @SecondOpinion was a 2-volume newsletter that we distributed sans permission at local hospitals, universities, and at Race for the Cure.

Volume 1: May, 1999.
Volume 2: September, 1999
*Online versions of @SecondOpinion can be viewed here.

Does She or Doesn’t She? (Cheaper by the Dozen)

subRosa built a giant nest and staged a sit-in and photo-shoot on the steps of the neoclassical Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, which at the time was home to Carnegie Mellon’s Department of Biology and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Photos from this action were featured in V2 of @SecondOpinion alongside an essay about the risks of becoming an egg-donor.

SmartMom

A web project that satirically detourns the concept of Smart T-shirt technology (developed for remote battlefield medicine by the U.S. military) to the uses of pregnancy surveillance and assisted reproductive technologies, 1999 (redesigned in 2000 & 2009).

CeLLular mUTaTIONS

A distribution of subRosa’s founding leaflet inside provocative “biohazard” travel kits.

  • Next Five Minutes 3, Amsterdam, March, 1999.