If you’re swinging by Philadelphia in the next month or so, you could treat yourself to a visit to the Slought Foundation, which is hosting an exhibition of works from the Teutloff Collection, Germany. The exhibition is on until February 9, 2008.

“The collection…illustrates the ever-increasing fascination with and alterations to the concept of the ‘human’ in this age of technological and cultural transformation. It takes place at a particular moment when the human body is increasingly reduced to a supposedly self-evident and instrumentalized ‘thing’ under the all-pervasive gaze of commerical media and the biological sciences, as well as the body cults and healthcare crazes that predominate amongst the public at large (Aaron Levy, Slought Foundation).”

“SWITCHER SEX: Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection”

Video Works by Peter Weibel, Patricia Piccinini, Sigalit Landau, Tracey Emin, Bjørn Melhus, Michael Rees, Una Szeemann, Zhou Xiaohu, Donigan Cumming,

Photographs by Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney, Katharina Bosse, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peng Chi, Donigan Cumming, Danica Dakic, Valie Export, Brian Finke, Gilbert + George, Nan Goldin, Alfredo Jaar, Jürgen Klauke, Annie Leibovitz, Boris Mikhailov, Dario Mitidieri, Adam Nadel, Nobuyoshi Araki, Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Andres Serrano, Larry Towell