Bioism: new living art forms - The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I am a native of the Soviet Union in what is now called Ukraine. I was a huge fan of drawing as an infant; and I received several awards. Following high school I went on to pursue a degree in economics but was not content with the prospect of working full-time at an uninteresting desk in a dirty office. So I decided to try at art with a serious approach, which eventually brought me to the classes that was taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making my art is an important procedure of creating unbelievable imaginary universes.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural feelings and shapes - that is what I love to think about and imagine. In my youth, just like all of us, I began with my surroundings however, I soon became dissatisfied with interpreting well-known visual facts.
The attempt to create every possible variation and artefact with no known origins inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
How would you describe your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My daily contemplation and statement is:
Bioism , also known as biofuturism, is my attempt to create new living forms and a new aesthetics of future biological life. Bioism is an approach to create art pieces that express visual possibilities of synthetic biology. Bioism is an effort to make art using energy, variety and complexity. I view each work as living things. Bioism brings life to lifeless objects.
Personally, I believe that in the coming years following a biological revolution, we'll be using living furniture, live in live-in homes, as well as travel through space with living stations. However, the most interesting thing will be the ability for artists to create living things, creating new forms of life. The artistic act will acquire the sense of birth. It could be a reaction of the objects of art to their maker and the environment. The art museums of the future could turn into zoological gardens galleries that could become new diversity funds, ateliers into biological laboratories.
Bioism is a movement to create new and endless kinds of life in the universe. Paradise engineering is an advance in bioethics...
The manifesto I see it, can never be complete, because I myself am a living process still working on it."
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What's the secret to making your installations?
"I attempt to steer clear of the use of primitive geometrics, which means No straight lines, or the absence of lines, if possible. I am chasing after the collision between the macro and micro on a daily day basis.
Anything that isn't understood, or too complex is immediately noticed by our eyes as being organic, or perhaps alive. Biology is the most deep and most complicated information structure of our planet."
The church is a formal space. Are you stressed to make the area?
"It depends on your personal desires, your hidden burdens or the degree of uncertainty you have regarding your relationship to the universe of humanity. Personally, I have almost no idea about the concept of time, space and all their marvels. So when I go to a church, I feel like a child with a curiosity in the vast and mysterious playground with has some sort or communication capability.
I strive to be kind to the art of it however, I don't ignore its fun aspect and the aspect of speaking to the Deity. It is a bit similar to an XXL telephone booth, where you can talk while trying to hear you can laugh too."
What is your level of control of the creation process and what percentage of the process is all biological?
"Controlling chaos can be a difficult undertaking. My inner ear and eye are all about to receive the possibility of a new tune, to find unknown shapes, that speak to me, and stimulates the imagination of my. However, it's not a one way process where you behave like mining machines: taking lucky gems of fascinations and dumping a lot of trash of non-interesting options to your back. This is not for me.
My fascinations are often combined and other interests for a not-so-pleasant melody, but also a deviative revelation as well. One of the most rewarding aspects of this work is to create a brand new world, while you already feel how the final product should appear. There are times when you dream or even during the night when you are sleeping. However, the fact is that - the more I make, 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 find something other than enjoyment from it? For instance, mediation or reaching out to your most vulnerable part?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. Also, I create as I discover myself and see what I can do to surprise my own self and also how much the universe might surprise me - which involves all possible activities in this enigmatic path. Sometimes, the humor is funny in fact, sometimes I need more adrenalin I head out into the world and make an appearance."
What led you towards bioism? 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.
Then I fell in love by drawing landscapes where I would sit on the grass for hours at a time and try to sketch natural movements onto the paper. Then I made some portraits, but I became so unhappy, frustrated by the flatness of human faces that were reproduced (including on photographs and videos), that I stopped. Exactly at that moment the shell of my egg fell off and I was revealed as a phoenix (or Godzilla). This means I became closer to the truth of existence. What exactly is it? It's not to explain the one that is already in place however, it is to write an entirely new version. This was the day I began to create of bioethics and my bioism."
While browsing your IG I was thinking that bioism could be interested in homeless issues within LA...
"But there was an opposite story: it was cold in the streets, and lonely residents were content to be touched by any human touch, to hear the Christmas art-story of the new-born bioism, and to play with little blue child of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the beach of the Hollywood might cause by me to take a completely different route in my mind. I need to consider the philosophical implications of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes of Venice."
To view more of his collection of works and to dive deeper into bioism visit the artist's Instagram and the current installation in the cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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