Premiere! Artist in Person The medical industry relies on the vulnerability of its clients. And nowhere is this vulnerability more pronounced than in the reproductive technologies where women, desperate to fulfill societal expectations, fall prey to inconceivable remedies for infertility. Kathy High's audacious, queasy, and pointed The Temple of the Fetus looks at the emerging "fetal environment" and its incubating ideology. High's hybridized tape follows the political awakening of a fictional TV journalist, Susan Tate, reporting on reproductive "options." Combined with "real" interviews and clips from the annals of medical history, Tate's story unfolds in a near-future when the Department of Reproductive Ethics and Procedures has been established. A friend's techno-pregnancy becomes the basis for Tate's reportage on the official (and covertly eugenic) Egg Retrieval Program. Through her investigation, we learn of the genetic agenda behind gestational surrogacy, artificial insemination, embryo recovery-the whole "infertility merry-go-round." The Temple of the Fetus delivers: these bio-technologies are an attempt to reinstall the status of women as breeders, their bodies repossessed.-Steve Seid