Our Civilization Depends on You

Our Civilization Depends on You examines the endless parade of instructions women are told to follow: have children, embrace your “feminine essence,” align with the moon, please civilization, please God, please anyone. These directives have echoed for generations — through religion, family, and culture — but technology has amplified those quiet whispers into a constant hum, rebranding belief as lifestyle and ideology as aesthetics.

Drawing on online tradwife aesthetics, pronatalist messaging, and womb-spirituality influencers, the work explores how ideology circulates like white noise: compelling, manipulative, and impossible to tune out.

At its center is documentation of the artist’s sterilization: a preserved fallopian tube and lab report as an act of embodied refusal. Around it, AI-generated voices echo persuasive scripts — smooth, unfeeling, relentless. They mirror the machinery of online influence itself: systems that automate conviction, amplify outrage, and package ideology for mass consumption.

The work stages a collision between autonomy and system, body and ideology. The preserved specimen becomes a monument to everything that will not happen — a lineage ended, a script torn up, a civilization that will have to depend on someone else.

Installation

X Frames per Space, group art exhibition

Part of Vienna Art Week 2025
Organized by VCAS - Vienna Contemporary Art Space and LBI Netmed

Installation, fallopian tube in jar, lab report, AI-generated and recorded audio

AI generated audio component of the installation (5:48)