基因髮廊捽碟發佈會
Genetic Salon -DJ Conference

《基因髮廊捽碟發佈會》 是 Genetic Salon 計劃中的網台直播節目與公共討論系列。節目由香港社區電台 HKCR 支持，於 2018 至 2019 年期間進行，共三集，每集約一小時，由藝術家化身為 DJ Bobby Bobster 主持。

作品被設計成一場為即將誕生的 Genetic Salon 世界所舉行的思辨式發佈會。節目邀請來自不同專業與日常位置的嘉賓參與，包括演員、家庭主婦、歷史研究者、神學背景人士、身體實踐者與動漫愛好者。基因工程在節目中不只是一個科學問題，而是與信仰、幻想、倫理、家庭、衰老、宗教、流行文化和身體想像交織在一起。

每集節目都從不同問題進入基因科技：如果有一天可以選擇編輯自己子女的基因，你會否這樣做？人類值得擁有怎樣的未來？「優秀」與「獨特」如何影響人的追求？基因檢測是否像潘朵拉的盒子？如果 Genetic Salon 存在，神會否懲罰人類？動漫如何想像身體改造？而中醫對身體整體性的理解，又如何挑戰西方生物醫學中較機械化的身體觀？

透過 DJ conference 的形式，Genetic Salon 不再只是一件固定的作品，而成為一場公共思想實驗。網台節目將計劃打開給藝術家以外的聲音，讓猜想、誤解、幽默、焦慮與慾望一同流動。《基因髮廊捽碟發佈會》 追問：在未來真正到來之前，我們如何討論身體的未來？而集體想像，又如何成為一個虛構服務的第一個原型？

Genetic Salon – DJ Conference is a livestream radio programme and public discussion series developed as part of the Genetic Salon project. Supported by Hong Kong Community Radio, the programme took place across three one-hour episodes between 2018 and 2019, hosted by the artist through the persona of DJ Bobby Bobster.

Conceived as a speculative launch event for the future world of Genetic Salon, the programme gathered guests from different fields and everyday positions, including actors, housewives, historians, theologians, body practitioners, and anime lovers. Together, they discussed genetic engineering not only as a scientific issue, but as a question of belief, fantasy, ethics, family, ageing, religion, popular culture, and the body.

Each episode approached genetic technology through a different set of questions: whether one would edit the genes of one’s future child; what kind of future human beings deserve; how the desire for excellence and uniqueness shapes human pursuit; whether genetic testing resembles the story of Pandora; whether God would punish a world with Genetic Salon; how anime imagines bodily transformation; and how Chinese medicine might complicate the mechanistic understanding of the body in Western biomedical models.

Through the format of a DJ conference, Genetic Salon becomes less a fixed artwork than a public thought experiment. The radio programme opens the project to voices outside the artist’s own imagination, allowing speculation, misunderstanding, humour, anxiety, and desire to circulate together. Genetic Salon – DJ Conference asks how the future of the body is discussed before it arrives, and how collective imagination can become the first prototype of a fictional service.

Guests: Yik Tung Cheung (Actor)Jenny Li (Housewife)


今期精選問題 Selected Questions

1. 如果有一天你可以選擇編輯自己子女的基因，你會這樣做嗎？
   If one day you could choose to edit your child’s genes, would you do it?
2. 你認為人類值得擁有一個怎樣的未來？
   What kind of future do human beings deserve?
3. 「優秀」與「獨特」這兩個概念，如何影響人類對自我改造與未來的追求？
   How do the ideas of “excellence” and “uniqueness” shape human pursuit, self-modification, and the future?

這一集原本圍繞子女基因編輯、人類未來，以及「優秀／獨特」如何影響人的追求。

Guests: Marco (History Field) Michael (Theology Field)

今期精選問題 Selected Questions

1. 基因檢測是一種預測人生的技術。它會不會像潘朵拉盒子的故事一樣，一旦打開就無法回頭？
Genetic testing is a technology that predicts one’s life. Could it become like the story of Pandora’s box — something that cannot be undone once opened?
2. 半獸人是否真的可能存在？我們如何想像人類與非人類之間的界線？
Could orcs really exist? How do we imagine the boundary between the human and the non-human?
3. 如果 Genetic Salon 真的存在，神會懲罰我們嗎？
If Genetic Salon really existed, would God punish us?

這一集比較偏向歷史、神學和神話想像，討論基因檢測、潘朵拉、半獸人，以及基因改造是否會觸犯神／自然秩序。

Guests: Siu Ding (Human Body Field) Kobe Ko (Japanese Anime Lover)
今期精選問題 Selected Questions

1. 動漫中有哪些改造身體的例子？這些想像如何影響我們理解未來身體？
What are some examples of bodily transformation in anime? How do these imaginaries shape our understanding of future bodies?
2. 基因工程作為一種西方科技，是否會延續西方醫學中較機械化的身體觀？如果參考中醫對身體整體性的理解，基因工程會變成另一種想像嗎？
As a Western technology, does genetic engineering continue a mechanistic view of the body in Western medicine? If we consider the holistic understanding of the body in Chinese medicine, could genetic engineering be imagined differently?
3. 我們應該如何理解身體衰老？年齡是由器官、基因、外貌、功能，還是時間來定義？
How should we understand bodily ageing? Is age defined by organs, genes, appearance, function, or time?

這一集原本討論動漫中的身體改造、中醫與西方醫學對身體的不同理解、器官移植和年齡定義，以及身體衰老。