Cult of The New Eve
In 1999, the CAE began a new project that explored how scientific technology in genetics could be combined with religious attitudes, such as those of Christian communion where someone can eat bread and drink wine as a metaphor of eating Christ to celebrate him. This performance project was titled Cult of the New Eve (or CoNE when abbreviated). The way in which the CAE interpreted this idea of communion was by using a human genome of a female donor taken from a blood sample. They spliced the genome and inserted it into yeast, which was then placed into a host and a small cup of beer given to audience members who were willing to participate. The genome from the donor is intended to represent a ‘New Eve… a sacrosant Messiah’ who is literally consumed unlike Christian communion where Christ is only metaphorically consumed. The project also offers public and online preaching, baptisms, communion, sacred theological and cosmological texts and prophecies. It has been based upon the Human Genome project at Roswell Park medical complex in Buffalo, New York.
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