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 when I was a kid; I had a few prizes. Following high school I went on to study economics, but did not feel content with the idea of a full-time future at the workstation of a boring, dusty office. So I decided to try at art with a serious approach, which eventually resulted in me enrolling in the class of Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Then, I was able to study under Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making art for me is an important procedure of creating unbelievable, imagined universes.
Alien-like aesthetics, unearthly images and forms - this is exactly what I enjoy to visualize and think about. Naturally, during my youth, just like all of us, I began with the things which surrounded me and then I began to feel dissatisfied with interpreting well-known visual facts.
The attempt to create all deviations imaginable and artefacts with no known origins inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
What would you say about your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My everyday thought and declaration is:
Bioism , also known as biofuturism, is my effort to design new living forms and a modern aesthetic for future biological life. Bioism is an approach to design art-related objects that demonstrate the visual potential of synthetic biological processes. Bioism is an effort to produce art based on energy, variety and complexity. Each work as an actual living thing. Bioism gives life to dead subjects.
Personally, I think that in the coming years following an evolutionary revolution, we'll be using living furniture, dwell in living homes and travel in space using living stations. But the most exciting thing will be the ability for artists to create living materials, and thus create novel forms of life. The art form will take on the practical sensation of birth. The fantastical could be the reactions of an art object to its creator and its surroundings. Future art museums might transform into zoological gardens galleries that could become new diversification funds, and ateliers to biological laboratories.
Bioism is a movement to create new and endless types of life across the world. Paradise engineering represents an advance in bioethics...
The manifesto I believe, will never be completed, since I'm a biochemical process that is still in the process of completing the issue."
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What are the most important factors for you to create your own installations?
"I try to stay clear of any primitive geometrics: no straight lines, even no lines at all, if possible. I'm chasing the collision of both macro and micro an everyday routine.
Anything that isn't understood, or too complex will be immediately recognized by our inner eye as living or organic. Biology is the deepest and most intricate information structure of our planet."
The church is a formal space. Do you find it difficult to work within such a space?
"It depends on your inner desires, your hidden burdens or how uncertain you are regarding your relationship to the world of humankind. Personally, I have almost no idea about space, time and their marvels. So when I go to the church, I am like a curious child in an enormous and bizarre playground with has some sort of communication function.
It is my goal to show respect to the art of it, but I do not forget about its entertainment side and the aspect of conversing with a god. It is a bit similar to an XXL telephone booth where while talking or trying to understand you could be funny too."
How much do you have control of the process of creation and what percentage of the creation process involves bioism?
"Controlling chaos can be a difficult venture. My inner ear and eyes is always listening for the possibility of a new tune, to find unknown shape, which speaks to me, and stimulates my imagination nerve. However, it's not a only one-way process in which you are an mining machine, taking lucky gems of fascinations and throwing hell of waste of non-interesting options to your back. For me, it's not a good idea.
I do combine fascinations and other interests for a not-so-pleasant tune, but kind of surprising and unexpected results as well. One of the most rewarding aspects of the work is creating a new universe when you know what it ought to look. There are times when you dream and other times it happens at night, while you sleep. The fact remains that the more I create, the more blisses I get, where chaos can be my companion in the growth of bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it or are you able to find something other than enjoyment from it? Like meditation or communication with your vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Also, I create as I discover myself and see the extent to which I might be able to surprise myself as well as how the universe can be able to surprise me. This involves every possible activity on this strange pathway. Sometimes, the humor is funny in fact, sometimes I'm feeling more exhilarated, I go to the outside world and create an appearance."
What was your path towards bioism? What were you experimenting with prior to it?
"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.
Later I fell in love by drawing landscapes which meant I could lie in the grass for hours at a time trying to draw nature's movements on the cardboard. After that I even made some portraits, but I was dissatisfied and frustrated by the flatness of human faces that were reproduced (including in videos and photographs), that I stopped. The moment I stopped, the egg's shell was broken and I emerged as the phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I came closer to the truth of existence. What exactly is it? It is not to describe the existing one however, it is to write an entirely new version. It was the first day of my bioism and bioethics."
When I was going through your IG I thought that bioism could be interested in homeless issues in LA...
"But it was not a good story It was cold on the streets , and the people where happy to receive any human touch, to be able to hear the Christmas tale of the newborn bioism and to play with little blue children of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the shores of Hollywood may trigger an entirely different perspective in my mind. I need to consider the philosophical aspects of bioism in a fictional Diogenes in Venice."
To view more of his portfolio of work as well as go deeper into bioism, visit his Instagram as well as the latest installation in The cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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