Bioism: the new art of living forms - The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I was born in the Soviet Union in what is now called Ukraine. I enjoyed drawing when I was a child; I even received several awards. After high-school I went on to study economics. However, I did not feel content with the idea of having a career that was full-time the workstation of a boring and dusty workplace. So I decided to try at art with a serious approach, which eventually brought me to the classes of Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Then, I was able to be a student of Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making artwork for me, is a significant method of creating unimaginable, imagined worlds.
Aliens-like visuals, mystical images and forms - this is what I love to think about and imagine. In my youth, just like everyone, I started with the things which surrounded me however, I soon became dissatisfied with interpreting well-known visual facts.
The attempt to create every possible variation and artefact that are not known to me inspired me to create completely new universes."
What is your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My everyday thought and declaration is:
Bioism , also known as biofuturism, is my attempt to create new living forms and a new aesthetics of future living things. Bioism can be described as a method to develop art objects which demonstrate the visual potential of synthetic biological processes. Bioism attempts to create art that is based on the power of life, diversity and. I regard each of my works as living things. Bioism extends life to lifeless subjects.
Personally, I am convinced that in the near future, in the wake of a biological revolution, we'll use living furniture, dwell in living homes and even travel to space via living spaces. But the most exciting thing will be the ability of artists to use living materials, and thus create new forms of life. Artistic expression will gain an actual sensation of birth. Fantastical might be reactions of objects of art to their maker and the environment. Art museums of the future may transform into zoological parks galleries that could become new diversification funds, and ateliers to biology labs.
Bioism seeks to promote the new and infinite forms of life throughout the entire universe. Paradise engineering is the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
This manifesto, I feel, will never be complete, because I myself am a living process still working on the issue."
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What is the key for you to create your own installations?
"I attempt to steer clear of the use of primitive geometrics, which means none of the straight lines or no lines at all, as far as is possible. I am chasing after the collision of both macro and micro an everyday basis.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complex will be immediately recognized by our inner eye as being organic, or perhaps alive. Biology is among the deepest and most intricate information structure in the universe."
The church is a formal space. Are you stressed to make the area?
"It depends on your inner beliefs, fears, or even how unsure you are regarding your relationship to the world of humankind. Personally, I have almost zero knowledge of space, time and their wonders. When I am in an institution, I feel like a child with a curiosity in an enormous and bizarre playground with has some sort of communication function.
I try to be respectful towards its artistry however, I don't ignore its fun aspect, the part about talking to a Deity. It is a bit like an XXL-style phone booth where while talking or trying to understand you could laugh too."
How much are you in control of the process of creation and what percentage of the creation process involves biomimetic?
"Controlling chaos is a challenging endeavor. My inner ear and eye is always listening for an unknown melody or form, that speaks to me, and stimulates the imagination of my. However, it's not a only one-way process in which you behave like a mining machine: finding the most interesting gems and throwing a plethora of not interesting possibilities behind your back. For me, it's not a good idea.
My fascinations are often combined with other minor possibilities to achieve not only pleasant tune, but kind of deviative revelation too. The best part of the work is to create a brand new world, while you already feel how the final product should appear. Sometimes you have a daydream; sometimes it comes during the night when you are sleeping. The fact remains that the more I create, the more blisses I experience, and chaos becomes my friend in growing bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it or find something other than enjoyment from it? For instance, mediation or reaching out to your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Additionally, I draw as I discover myself and see what I can do to amaze myself, and how else the universe can surprise me - which involves every possible activity in this enigmatic path. Sometimes, it's funny in fact, sometimes I'm feeling more exhilarated, I head out in the world to make an an."
What was your path to becoming a bioist? What were you experimenting with prior to 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 with landscape drawing, which meant I could lie in the grass for long periods of time and try to sketch natural movements onto the paper. In the end, I created some portraits, but I was dissatisfied and being bored of human faces that were reproduced (including on photographs and videos) which is why I stopped. At that point, the egg's shell was broken and I emerged as the phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I came closer to the secret of life. What exactly is it? It's not to explain the one that is already in place and to create the new one. It was the first day of my bioism and bioethics."
While browsing your IG I was thinking Bioism may be interested in the issue of homelessness within LA...
"But it was a contrary narrative It was cold on the streets and lonely residents were content to be touched by every human touch, be able to hear the Christmas tale of the new-born bioism, as well as to play with the tiny blue children of it.
The naked poverty on the beaches of Hollywood could trigger to take a completely different route and I'm forced to think of the philosophical implications of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes from Venice."
For more information about Aljoscha's body of work and go deeper into bioism, look up the artist's Instagram and the current installation at the cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.