Last night on television was a short documentary on bio -artists. The idea of taking up a residency in a laboratory makes me cringe to begin with, but by the end of the show this was twofold. the 'bio-artists' - came off as Dr Frankensteins. sickly looking folk in lab jackets messing around with cells and placenta blood. aesthetically they were naive - a 6cm high 'jacket' growing? in a round vial - see photo. they then 'killed' the jacket by putting it in a petrie dish and squishing it with rubber gloved hands. it was really dumb.
They were attempting to make a point about life, but this 'jacket' was not self-sustaining or self-feeding. The cells self-perpetuated but of course they will. shaping it like a jacket is a cheap choice - a covering, a skin - and a really obvious attempt at being at the cutting edge of art yet not thinking beyond their wardrobes.
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