Independent Research Project
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exterior panels of The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch, 1504
The Garden of Earthly Delights is conceived of by FA + JPC/K | Corps Cellule, a collaborative art and research initiative, investigating relational aesthetics of biological technologies through the articulation of experiments in seri-culture (silk-worm cultivation) and orchid micro-propagation. The project proposes to install a lab environment within the gallery in which interspecies life-forms are co-cultured, with the coupling of awareness, technology and participant body(ies). The scattered puzzle pieces of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, contextualizes the work as a living biological metaphor and initiates discourse on the sacred and the profane.
Over the course of the exhibition, a slow but steady transformation occurs within a contained environment as silkworms and orchids intermingle. Performing daily horticulture techniques, the chrysalis (silk cocoons produced by the silkworms) will be woven into scaffolds suitable for seeding with orchid tissue cultures, to realize the co-culturing of a worm and a flower. As the growth in variability and reproduction occurs, development slowly unfurls, revealing an unforeseen and emerging hybrid, further investigating “the fluidity of the concept of species in an ever increasingly transgenic social context.”(Eduardo Kac)
The daily gallery activities include the culturing and care of these living entities, experiments in micro-propagation, and finally the fusing of these two symbolic life-forms, co-habitating, cross-cultured, and modified at essential levels.
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exterior panels of The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch, 1504
The Garden of Earthly Delights is conceived of by FA + JPC/K | Corps Cellule, a collaborative art and research initiative, investigating relational aesthetics of biological technologies through the articulation of experiments in seri-culture (silk-worm cultivation) and orchid micro-propagation. The project proposes to install a lab environment within the gallery in which interspecies life-forms are co-cultured, with the coupling of awareness, technology and participant body(ies). The scattered puzzle pieces of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, contextualizes the work as a living biological metaphor and initiates discourse on the sacred and the profane.
Over the course of the exhibition, a slow but steady transformation occurs within a contained environment as silkworms and orchids intermingle. Performing daily horticulture techniques, the chrysalis (silk cocoons produced by the silkworms) will be woven into scaffolds suitable for seeding with orchid tissue cultures, to realize the co-culturing of a worm and a flower. As the growth in variability and reproduction occurs, development slowly unfurls, revealing an unforeseen and emerging hybrid, further investigating “the fluidity of the concept of species in an ever increasingly transgenic social context.”(Eduardo Kac)
The daily gallery activities include the culturing and care of these living entities, experiments in micro-propagation, and finally the fusing of these two symbolic life-forms, co-habitating, cross-cultured, and modified at essential levels.
For more on this project please see the on-line research log: http://bombyx-imago.blogspot.com/
which documents the conceptual development of the proposed co-culture, contextualized by personal poetics and narratives.
which documents the conceptual development of the proposed co-culture, contextualized by personal poetics and narratives.
