Program

Featured Art Scene / Exhibitions

Micro Flesh

04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00 - 19:00

Lentos

Micro Flesh features five projects in which microbiology of the human body is explored in various ways: 37°C (2001/3), Micro cosm (2002/6), In-Time (2005/7), Unique (2006), Hair Lasje (2005/7).

The processual incubative installations presented as interfaces between art and science include living micro organisms, skin and hair cells. With biotechnological procedures of fragmentation and reconstruction of body, the artist manipulates living material, effecting a re-examination of the notion of living and altering the understanding of the human organism, which is undergoing profound change through tissue engineering and other microbiological procedures. Using scientific tools and methods in the sphere of art the actual social and political questions regarding biotech discourse are being discussed. The project presented at Ars Electronica is Unique, which involves the cultivation of micro cultures donated by observers.