Bioism: new living art forms - The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I am a native of the Soviet Union in what is now called Ukraine. I loved to draw as a child; I even received several awards. After high-school I went on to study economics. However, I wasn't satisfied with the possibility of working full-time at the workstation of a boring dirty office. Therefore, I decided to take art seriously, which resulted in me enrolling in the class that was taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. After that, I moved on to be a student of Shirin Neshat in Salzburg."
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"Making my art is an essential process of creating impossible imaginary worlds.
Aliens-like visuals, mystical forms and feelings - that is what I love to imagine and visualize. Naturally, during my younger years, as with everyone, I started with my surroundings however, I soon became unhappy with the interpretation of the most well-known facts about visuals.
The attempt to create any variation that is possible and artefacts with no known origins inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
How would you describe your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Biofuturism or Bioism is an attempt to create life-like living things and new aesthetics of future living things. Bioism is a way to develop art objects which express visual possibilities of synthetic life. Bioism attempts to make art using energy, variety and complexity. Each work as a living being. Bioism brings life to lifeless subjects.
Personally, I believe that in the near future, in the wake of the biological revolution, we'll use living furniture, reside in living homes and travel in space using living stations. However, the most interesting thing will be the ability of artists to work with living substances, thereby constructing new forms of life. Artistic expression will gain the sense of birth. The fantastical could be the reactions of an artwork to the maker and the environment. The art museums of the future could turn into zoological gardens galleries that could become new diversity funds, ateliers into bio-labs.
Bioism aims to spread different and inexhaustible types of life across the entire universe. Paradise engineering is the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
This manifesto, I believe, will never be complete, because I'm a biochemical process still working on it."
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What's the secret in making your installation?
"I attempt to steer clear of all primitive geometric structures: no straight lines, even the absence of lines, in the event that it is feasible. I'm chasing the collision between micro and macro on an everyday basis.
Anything unknown or overly complicated is instantly perceived by the human eye as being organic, or perhaps alive. Biology is among the deepest and most intricate information structure in the universe."
Church is a formal place. Do you find it difficult to work within such a space?
"It is based on your own inner expectations, hidden burdens, or even how unsure you are in your understanding of your place in the human universe. For me, I'm almost zero knowledge of time, space and its amazing wonders. An so when in an institution, I feel like a curious child in a large and strange playground with has some sort or communication capability.
It is my goal to show respect towards its artistry However, I also don't forget about its entertainment side, the part about speaking to the Deity. It's similar to an XXL telephone booth. While talking or trying to hear you can be funny too."
How much are you in control of the process of creation and what percentage of the creation process involves biomimetic?
"Controlling chaos can be an extremely challenging undertaking. My eyes and ear will be listening to the possible unknown tune, to find unknown form, that speaks to me, and stimulates my imagination nerve. But it is not only one-way process in which you behave like a mining machine: taking lucky gems of fascinations and dumping a lot of trash of non-interesting options behind your back. For me, it's not a good idea.
I often combine my fascinations along with other possibilities minor for a not-so-pleasant tune, but kind of unexpected revelations also. The most precious part of the work is to compose new world when you know what it should look like. There are times when you dream; sometimes it comes in the night while sleeping. The fact remains that the more I create, the more blisses I am able to experience. Chaos can be my companion in the growth of bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it or are you able to gain something more from it, like the practice of meditation, or communicating with your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Also, I create while discovering myself - the extent to which I might be able to surprise myself and how else the universe might amaze me, which takes into account all possible activities along this unusual path. Sometimes, the humor is funny indeed, and sometimes if I'm feeling more exhilarated, I venture out into the world and create an appearance."
What led you to becoming a bioist? 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.
Then I fell in love with drawing of landscapes, where I could sit in the grass for long periods of time, trying to draw nature's movements on the cardboard. After that I even made several portraits. However, I became so unhappy, being bored of any human figure that was reproduced (including in videos and photographs) which is why I stopped. At that point, the egg's shell broke and I emerged like a phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I was brought nearer to the truth of existence. What exactly is it? It is not to describe the current one and to create the new one. This was the day I began to create of bioethics and my bioism."
As I perused your IG I was thinking that bioism could be interested in the issue of homelessness and homelessness in LA...
"But it was not a good narrative: it was cold on the streets , and the people were happy to get any touch from a human, to hear the Christmas art-story of the new-born bioism, and play with the little blue child of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the shores of Hollywood may trigger to take a completely different route in my mind. I need to consider the philosophical aspects of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes of Venice."
To view more of his body of work and go deeper into bioism, visit his Instagram as well as the latest installation in The cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.