At the Biocultural Borderland: The Unfolding of Multispecies Encounters in Latin American Bioart
The purpose of this article is to analyse two instances of bioart, namely, Allan Jeffs’ installation Ex+sistencia and Luciana Paoletti’s photographs Retratos, from the post-humanist perspective of multispecies encounters. According to Mitchell (2010), bioart engages artistic and scientific procedure...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Asociación Cultural 452ºF; Universitat de Barcelona
2019-07-01
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| Series: | 452ºF |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/27716 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this article is to analyse two instances of bioart, namely, Allan Jeffs’ installation Ex+sistencia and Luciana Paoletti’s photographs Retratos, from the post-humanist perspective of multispecies encounters. According to Mitchell (2010), bioart engages artistic and scientific procedures bringing about hybrid works that explore a concept or that seek to involve the spectator in biotechnological procedures to promote the debate on the problematic of technology. Based on that theoretical framework I study how bioart experiments with living microorganisms found in human bodies and visual media to explore the co-habiting of humans and bacteria in our own bodies, thus deconstructing dominant ideas on human nature and the human body. |
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| ISSN: | 2013-3294 |