Bioism: New living art forms The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I was born in the Soviet Union in what is currently Ukraine. I loved to draw as a child; I even won several prizes. Following high school I went on to study economics. However, I wasn't satisfied with the possibility of having a career that was full-time the workstation of a boring dirty office. Then I decided to pursue the art field seriously. This resulted in me enrolling in the class taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Then, I was able to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making art for me is a significant method of creating unimaginable imaginary universes.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural forms and feelings - that is exactly what I enjoy to visualize and think about. Naturally, during my early years, like everyone, I started with the things which surrounded me however, I soon became dissatisfied with interpreting well-known visual facts.
In the quest to produce every possible variation and artefact of unknown origin motivated me to design completely unique universes."
What would you say about your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my effort to design bio-inspired living organisms and new aesthetics of future organic life. Bioism can be described as a method to create art pieces that convey the aesthetic possibilities of synthetic life. Bioism is a method to create art that is based on the power of life, diversity and. Each work as a living being. Bioism extends life to lifeless subject matter.
Personally, I believe that in the future, in the wake of the biological revolution, we'll use living furniture, dwell in live-in homes, and travel in space using live stations. The most fascinating thing will be the ability of artists to work with living things, creating novel forms of life. Artistic expression will gain the practical feeling of being born. The fantastical could be the reactions of an artwork to the creator and surroundings. The art museums of the future may transform into zoological parks galleries that could become new diversification funds, and ateliers to bio-labs.
Bioism is a movement to create different and inexhaustible types of life across the world. Paradise engineering can be described as an advance in bioethics...
This manifesto, as I believe, will never be completed, since I myself am a living process that is still in the process of completing the issue."
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What is the key to making your installations?
"I attempt to steer clear of any primitive geometrics: no straight lines, even no lines at all, as far as is possible. I'm trying to find the collision of both macro and micro an everyday basis.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complicated is instantly perceived by the human eye as living or organic. Biology is the most deep and most complex information architecture in the universe."
The church is a formal space. Do you find it difficult to work the place?
"It depends on your personal beliefs, fears, or the degree of uncertainty you have regarding your relationship to the world of humankind. For me, I'm almost zero knowledge of space, time and their wonders. When I am in an institution, I feel like a child with a curiosity in a large and strange playground with has some sort or communication capability.
I try to be respectful to it as an artist, but I do not forget about its entertainment side, the part about 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."
How much are you in control of the creation process and how much of it is bioism?
"Controlling chaos is a challenging endeavor. My eyes and ear are all about to receive the possibility of a new tune and to discover a new shape, which speaks to me and reaches the imagination of my. But it is not an all-in-one process, where you are an mining machine, taking lucky gems of fascinations and dumping a lot of trash of uninteresting possibilities behind your back. This is not for me.
I do combine fascinations with other minor possibilities for a not-so-pleasant music, but a deviative revelation also. One of the most rewarding aspects of my work is the ability creating a new universe when you know what the final product should appear. Sometime you are in a dream and other times it happens during the night when you are sleeping. But the certainty is - the more I design, 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 gain something more from it? For instance, the practice of meditation, or communicating with your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Additionally, I draw by observing myself to see the extent to which I might amaze myself, and also how much the universe can be able to surprise me. This involves every possible activity on this strange pathway. Sometimes, the humor is funny indeed, and sometimes if I'm feeling more exhilarated, I go out in the world to make an appearance."
What led you to becoming a bioist? What did you try before 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 with drawing of 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 several portraits. However, I was so dissatisfied, so bored with the dullness of any reproduced human face (including on photographs and videos) and I halted. The moment I stopped, the shell of my egg broke and I emerged as the phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I became closer to the truth of existence. What is that? The idea isn't to define the one that is already in place however, it is to write a new one. That was the birth day of my bioethics and bioism."
As I perused your IG I thought that bioism could be interested in the issue of homelessness and homelessness in LA...
"But there was an opposite story It was cold on the streets , and the people were happy to get any touch from a human, to be able to hear the Christmas tale of the new-born bioism, and to play with little blue children of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the beach of the Hollywood may trigger a totally different approach and I'm forced to think of the philosophical aspects of bioism in a fictional Diogenes from Venice."
For more information about Aljoscha's collection of works and to dive deeper into bioism visit his Instagram and his current installation in the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.