“‘Surrogate’ began with a proposal: to carry someone else's baby for nine months while they monitored and controlled me through an app. The parents could dictate what I ate, when I slept, how I moved — full control over the body hosting their child. For two years, I followed this idea as far as it could go. I collaborated with doctors, psychologists, fertility specialists, and geneticists. The work involved designing the Surrogate app, searching databases for sperm donors, undergoing psychological assessments, freezing embryos, and maintaining an ongoing exchange between myself as artist and the intended parent. Presented through performance, video, installation, and web documentary, the project offers my body as a physical, emotional, and conceptual stand-in for understanding reproduction and technology's place within it. As emerging reproductive technologies reshape how we understand family and kinship, Surrogate poses the question: How much control should anyone have over a pregnant person's body, or over a life before it begins?”