Pine Rivers Shire Gallery-
Pine Rivers Shire councillor Yvonne Barlow

Free Alba is an exhibition that is about Eduardo Kac's GFP Bunny. "Alba" the GFP BUNNY, is a bunny rabbit that has been created via the hybridisation of the GFP Gene (green fluorescent protein) extracted from Jellyfish with the DNA of a Rabbit. Eduardo Kac created Alba with the intention that she becomes a member of his family and lives with him in Chicago. Alba was to be exhibited in the distinguished AVIGNONumerique exhibition in France (where Eduardo had her created), unfortunately Alba has been confined to live her life in a laboratory in France. Eduardo has not been able to have her released or gain access to her. Artists participating in this Free Alba exhibition have been asked to consider this scenario and make works in response to the rhetoric, discourse and debate associated with Alba. Since Duchamp introduced the "Readymade" into the visual arts, the boundaries of this practice have been widened significantly; A readymade urinal is one thing, what does it mean to the practice of contemporary art when an artist may introduce a genetically modified readymade bunny that glows in the dark? Should Eduardo be given permission to take his bunny home? These are just some examples of the discourse, which Alba the GFP Bunny has generated. The Free Alba exhibition hopes to proliferate the dialogue associated with the GFP Bunny and to bring awareness to Eduardo Kac's fight to get Alba Home.