Marina Sophia de Jong Yantorno

Today scientists claim to have found that GDF-8 Myostatin, a protein that regulates the amount of muscle mass that you can gain, if it’s genetically manipulated to lack and triggered with weight training, muscles can grow as twice as naturally possible and body fat is halved. The project is a speculative and critical short-film about the dark side of a female’s Bodybuilding journey seeking to become as muscular as possible with the help of CRISPR-Cas9, a novel and permanent genome editing technology. Throughout a theatrical performance, Dope Show analyses the extremist psychological and physical transformation of mutating into the illusion of the image of health, perfection and power as the ultimate goal.