Re: LIFESCIENCE: Re: A Reactionary Reaction

["Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard" <B.Richard@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de>]

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LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
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Eugene Thacker schrieb:

> One of the things I would love to see begin happening on this net
> symposium is some critical, creative, and problematizing work done on
> the familiar categories of "art" and "science."
>

i think we are quite creative at that point but you are right that we stick to the well known
categories or systems.

> But on the other the breadth, potential, and complexity of fields such
> as autopoiesis, transgenic art, and tissue engineering, as well as
> other, more familiar art-technology hybrids, all suggests that perhaps
> our modern disciplinary epistemes are currently being refigured,
> renegotiated, transformed.

but that is always the problem with western societies to categorize and being not very fond of
interdisciplinery work because every categorie wants to secure its own territory.

> - What are the boundaries, outlines, and silhouettes which demarcate the
> disciplines of art and science for us in the West? Are these markers
> institutional (the gallery/the lab; the art school/the med school;
> Duchamp, Haacke, Orlan - just brainstorming here...)

for me they are very institutionally and commercially formed and conditioned by context too

> - that is, are they
> conditioned by the context within which certain activity takes place? Or
> are they rooted in the discourses and knowledges which are said to
> constitute a discipline (anatomical knowledge of the body; sculptural
> knowledge of the body; the medical body; the dancer's body;
> motion-capture...)? Or is it defined by the way in which the
> knowledge/discourse networks are put into practice and implemented
> within the social (Beuys, Situationists, RAFI, ECD, SuperWeed....)?
>

for dealing with the problem one has to take all these concepts into account and work with it.
if you are able to look from all sides to the topic of lifescience you notice the whole
complexity, which normally has to be reduced to cope with a certain problem

regards
birgit
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