Shannon Bell

Bell has been producing work (images, films, written texts, live performances, and workshops ) on the female phallus and female ejaculation since 1989.  Her residency at SymbioticA was to construct and grow tissue engineered male and female phalluses as living art objects that show the internal and external female erection (the external clitoris, the internal urethral sponge, or what has been popularized as the g-spot) as a connective integrated whole comparable in size and stature to the male sex organ.
Bell also grew a big toe as part of the project.

Bell's project, titled 'Two Phalluses and Big Toe,' in addition to displaying the structural similarity of the male and female sex organs, functions as an addendum to the philosophers Jacques Lacan and Georges Bataille’s writings on the phallus and big toe. Once in the bioreactor, the three objects merged as a neo-sex organ.

Whilst on sabbatical from York University, Canada, Bell's 3 month residency in 2004 and 2005 was funded through various funding grants, including Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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