Abstract
Cellular and sub-cellular material become creative medium across a range of disciplines that engage with biotechnology, from medicine to art practice. Historically, these practices complicated the boundaries of the body through patriarchal and colonial narratives of abstraction and extraction. In contrast to the ethical requirements of anonymity in medical research, this article suggests that material culture has a duty to know the body it works with. Three brief histories of bodily donation are recounted and aspects of these are contrasted with contemporary approaches to the use of bodily material within art practice. The developing project, Offering the Body, is offered as an example of performative practice that reintroduces a proximity to the body in biotechnological practices and begins to question whether through art practice, the biological body can move from commodity to be considered as a more-than-human resource.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 197-204 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Technoetic Arts |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2020 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- abstraction
- bioart
- bioeconomy
- cellular material
- commodification
- donation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- Philosophy
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Science Applications
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