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Record Nr.

UNINA9910686778203321

Autore

Zurr Ionat

Titolo

Tissues, Cultures, Art [[electronic resource] /] / by Ionat Zurr, Oron Catts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-25887-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages)

Collana

Palgrave BioArt, , 2731-3034

Altri autori (Persone)

CattsOron

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Culture—Study and teaching

Arts

Biology

Visual Culture

Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. The Semi-living -- 2. Information, Genohype and DNA Chauvinism -- 3. Who Cares? Outsourcing Labour to Incubators -- 4. The Reverse Ontology of Sentience: The Technologically Mediated Victimless Utopia 5. Taxonomies, Categorizations and Queer Life -- 6. Concluding Notes: Secular Vitalism.

Sommario/riassunto

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.