Bioism: new living art 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. 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 dirty office. So I decided to try the art field seriously. This led me into the class 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 my art is an essential process of creating impossible, imagined worlds.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural feelings and shapes - that is the kind of things I like to imagine and visualize. Of course, in my youth, just like everybody else, I was drawn to the things which surrounded me, but very soon felt dissatisfied with interpreting 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 is your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My everyday thought and declaration is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my effort to design life-like living things and modern aesthetic for future biological life. Bioism can be described as a method to develop art objects which convey the aesthetic possibilities of synthetic biological processes. Bioism attempts to create art that is based on energy, variety and complexity. I view each of my works as an actual living thing. Bioism brings life to lifeless subject matter.
Personally, I am convinced that in the near future following a biological revolution, we'll use living furniture, reside in living homes and travel in space using living spaces. The most fascinating thing will be the ability for artists to create living things, creating different forms of living. Artistic expression will gain an actual feeling of being born. It could be a reaction of the artwork to the creator and surroundings. Future art museums could turn into zoological gardens galleries that could become new biodiversity funds, and art galleries into bio-labs.
Bioism is a movement to create new and endless kinds of life in the entire universe. Paradise engineering is the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
The manifesto I believe, will never be complete, because I am myself a biological process that is still in the process of completing the issue."
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What's the secret for you to create your own installations?
"I try to stay clear of the use of primitive geometrics, which means No straight lines, or the absence of lines, in the event that it is feasible. I'm chasing the collision between the macro and micro on a regular routine.
Anything unknown or overly complex is immediately perceived by the human eye as being organic, or perhaps alive. Biology is the most deep and most complex information architecture of our planet."
The church is a formal space. Is it stressful to create in such area?
"It depends on your inner expectations, hidden burdens, or the degree of uncertainty you have in your understanding of your place in the world of humankind. Personally, I've got zero knowledge of space, time and their wonders. When I am in the church, I am like a curious child in a large and strange play area that has some kind or communication capability.
It is my goal to show respect to it as an artist However, I also don't ignore its fun aspect and the aspect of speaking to the Deity. It is a bit like an XXL phone booth. While talking or trying to hear you can laugh too."
How much do you have charge of the creation process and how much of the creation process involves biological?
"Controlling chaos can be an extremely challenging venture. My eyes and ear will be listening to an unknown melody and to discover a new shapes, that speak to me, and stimulates my imagination. It's not just a an all-in-one process, where you act just like a mining machine: collecting lucky gemstones and throwing a plethora of non-interesting options in your face. For me, it's not a good idea.
My fascinations are often combined with other minor possibilities for a not-so-pleasant music, but a unexpected revelations too. The best part of my work is the ability to create a brand new world, when you know what the final product should appear. There are times when you dream; sometimes it comes during the night when you are sleeping. The fact remains that the more I make, the more blisses I experience, and 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 meditation or communication with your most vulnerable part?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. In addition, I draw as I discover myself and see what I can do to be able to surprise myself and how else the universe can amaze me, which takes into account any and all possibilities in this enigmatic path. Sometimes, it's funny for sure, but sometimes, if I need more adrenalin I venture out in the world to create an intervention."
What was your path to bioism? How did you get started? 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.
In the following years, I was infatuated by drawing landscapes which meant I could lie in the grass for long periods of time, trying to draw nature's movements on the cardboard. Then I made portraits. But I became so unhappy, so bored with the dullness of any reproduced human face (including photos and video) and I halted. At that point, the shell of my egg was broken and I emerged as the phoenix (or Godzilla). This means I came closer to the truth of existence. What is that? It is not to describe the current one, but to compose an entirely new version. That was the birth day of my bioethics and bioism."
When I was going through your IG I was thinking that bioism might be interested in homelessness in LA...
"But it was not a good story: it was cold on the streets and lonely people where happy to receive any human touch, to be able to hear the Christmas tale of new born bioism and play with the little blue baby of it.
The naked poverty on the beaches of Hollywood might cause by me to take a completely different route - I have to imagine the philosophical aspects of bioism in a fictional Diogenes in Venice."
To see more of Aljoscha's portfolio of work as well as go deeper into bioism, look up the artist's Instagram and his current installation in The cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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