Tissues, Cultures, Art
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Tissues, Cultures, Art narrates the twenty-five years of collaborative and sometimes provocative artistic practice and scholarly thought of Catts & Zurr, who pioneered the use of regenerative biology techniques to create Semi-Living art using living cells, tissues, and technological surrogate bodies. Through hands-on work in biological laboratories, the authors researched concepts such as partial-life and DNA-Chauvinism and explored the fantasies of living in a technologically mediated victimless utopia. The authors delve into life’s resistance to reductionism, systemisation and control, asking whether there is something unique to life without the need to resort to metaphysics. Their practices reach beyond the confines of art and are often cited as precursors to the cellular agriculture and biofabrication industries.
Through a hybrid of personal reflections, poetics, and anecdotes with a more rigorous, scholarly approach – all illustrated with artworks - the authors present a critical view on the use of life as a raw material for human manipulation.
Tissues, Cultures, Art narrates the twenty-five years of collaborative and sometimes provocative artistic practice and scholarly thought of Catts & Zurr, who pioneered the use of regenerative biology techniques to create Semi-Living art using living cells, tissues, and technological surrogate bodies. Through hands-on work in biological laboratories, the authors researched concepts such as partial-life and DNA-Chauvinism and explored the fantasies of living in a technologically mediated victimless utopia. The authors delve into life’s resistance to reductionism, systemisation and control, asking whether there is something unique to life without the need to resort to metaphysics. Their practices reach beyond the confines of art and are often cited as precursors to the cellular agriculture and biofabrication industries.
Through a hybrid of personal reflections, poetics, and anecdotes with a more rigorous, scholarly approach – all illustrated with artworks - the authors present a critical view on the use of life as a raw material for human manipulation.
Describes the artistic practices based in biological laboratories Elaborates tissue engineering and regenerative biology technologies to grow Semi-Living sculptures Story of the pioneers in BioArt who mentored a generation of artists working in biological laboratories
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Ionat Zurr
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Semi-living Biological Art/Bioart Cellular agriculture Biofabrication SymbioticA Metabolic rift technologies Posthumanities Arts & Science Environmental Humanities Biotechnology and Art Regenerative Biology Tissue Engineering
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Tissues, Cultures, Art is a timely reminder that urges us to rethink what is living, as it gets viewed and shaped through a techno-scientific lens. This book provides an important critique of the cultures incubated at laboratories, art exhibitions, and countless industries that promote hype cycles of engineering life. Zurr and Catts question the consequences of treating life as raw material: Which ideologies invented the disembodied body? Who gets to "control" as the living becomes food, materials, or “science”? How do we negotiate the responsibilities of being "human" in an increasingly challenged world? Like reading Frankestein backwards: We cannot grow answers, but can at least trace back how the flesh gets reimagined by the mind.-Orkan Telhan, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
What happens when ‘life itself’ becomes not only an object of biopolitics, but also aresource to be commodified, controlled, engineered, consumed and monetised – presumably ad infinitum – in present-day capitalism?
In this urgently needed and brilliantly written book, bioart pioneers Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts take us on a fascinating journey: from the history of tissue engineering, through technoscientific manipulations of ‘bits of life’ and the accompanying ‘hidden’ violence, to their own artistic practices, critically engaged in contemporary discourses, transformations and modifications of biological matter. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in the place ‘life’ holds at the intersection of contemporary science, technology, culture and society.
-Dr. Marietta Radomska, Assistant Professor, Linköping University
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