Bioism: the new art of living forms The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I was born in the Soviet Union in what is currently Ukraine. I enjoyed drawing when I was a child; I even won several prizes. Following high school I went on to study economics, but did not feel content with the idea of working full-time at the desk of a dull, dusty office. So I decided to try art seriously, which led me into the class that was taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. After that, I moved on to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making my art is an essential method of creating unimaginable and imagined universes.
Aliens-like visuals, mystical images and forms - this is exactly what I enjoy to imagine and visualize. Of course, in my younger years, as with all of us, I began with my surroundings, but very soon felt unsatisfied by the way I interpreted known visual information.
In the quest to produce all deviations imaginable and artefacts with no known origins inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
What would you say about your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My daily contemplation and statement is:
Bioism , also known as biofuturism, is my effort to design life-like living things and modern aesthetic for future biological life. Bioism is an approach to develop art objects which convey the aesthetic possibilities of synthetic biological processes. Bioism is a method to produce art based on the power of life, diversity and. I regard each of my works as an actual living thing. Bioism extends life to lifeless subjects.
Personally, I am convinced that in the future, in the wake of a biological revolution, we'll use living furniture, live in living homes and travel in space using live stations. However, the most interesting thing will be the ability of artists to use living things, creating novel forms of life. The art form will take on the feeling of being born. Fantastical might be reactions of art object to its creator and surroundings. The art museums of the future might transform into zoological gardens galleries that could become new diversification funds, and ateliers to bio-labs.
Bioism seeks to promote different and inexhaustible types of life across the world. Paradise engineering represents the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
This manifesto, I feel, will never be complete, because I'm a biochemical process still working on the issue."
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What's the secret to making your installations?
"I attempt to steer clear of all primitive geometric structures: No straight lines, or none at all in the event that it is feasible. I am chasing after the intersection between micro and macro on an everyday day basis.
Anything that isn't understood, or too complicated is instantly noticed by our eyes as organic or somehow alive. Biology is among the deepest and most complex information architecture of our planet."
The church is a formal space. Is it stressful to create in such space?
"It depends on your inner beliefs, fears, or the degree of uncertainty you have regarding your relationship to the human universe. For me, I'm almost none of the knowledge about space, time and their amazing wonders. An so when in a church, I feel as if I'm a child who's exploring an enormous and bizarre playground with has some sort of communication purpose.
I try to be respectful to it as an artist However, I also don't overlook its fun side that is speaking to the Deity. It is a bit similar to an XXL telephone booth, where you can talk while trying to listen, you may laugh too."
What is your level of control of the process of creation and what percentage of the process is all biological?
"Controlling chaos can be an extremely challenging undertaking. My inner ear and eyes will be listening to an unknown melody or shape, which speaks to me and touches my imagination nerve. But it is not one way process where you act just like an mining machine, finding the most interesting gems and throwing a plethora of non-interesting options to your back. For me, it's not a good idea.
I do combine fascinations and other interests in order to create not just a pleasant music, but a unexpected revelations too. The most precious part of the work is creating a new universe as you are already imagining what the final product should appear. Sometime you are in a dream; sometimes it comes in the night while sleeping. However, the fact is that - the more I design and create, the greater pleasures I get, where chaos becomes my friend in growing bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it or are you able to gain something more from it? Like mediation or reaching out to your vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Additionally, I draw by observing myself to see how far I could be able to surprise myself and also how much the universe might amaze me, which takes into account every possible activity along this unusual path. Sometimes, it's funny indeed, and sometimes if I'm in need of more adrenaline, I head out into the world and create an appearance."
How did you get to bioism? What did you try before you made the switch?
"The first steps were rather normal: I remember how happy I was about my half-drawing-half-painting of the tractor in the field for which I was praised in kindergarten.
In the following years, I was infatuated by drawing landscapes where I could sit in the grass for long periods of time trying to draw nature's movements on the cardboard. In the end, I created several portraits. However, I became so unhappy, so bored with the dullness of any human figure that was reproduced (including photos and video) and I halted. The moment I stopped, the egg's shell fell off and I was revealed like the phoenix (or Godzilla). This means I became closer to the secret of life. What is that? The idea isn't to define the one that is already in place, but to compose an entirely new version. This was the day I began to create of my bioism and bioethics."
When I was going through your IG I was thinking Bioism may be interested in the issue of homelessness and homelessness in LA...
"But there was an opposite tale It was cold on the streets , and the people where happy to receive any human touch, to hear the Christmas art-story of the new-born bioism, as well as to play with the tiny blue baby of it.
The naked poverty on the shores of Hollywood could trigger an entirely different perspective and I'm forced to think of the philosophical implications of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes from Venice."
To view more of his collection of works and to explore bioism in greater depth, check out his Instagram and the current installation in the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.