It is the last day to watch a movie projected onto a screen made of living tissue in New York City. Corpus Extremis (Life+), located at Exit Art in Chelsea, is the city’s latest transgenic art exhibit. It opened on February 28 and ends today. The exhibit is dominated by the works hosted by SymbioticA, a program at the University of Western Australia that interweaves the two fields of art and science. Guy Ben Ary and Tanya Visosevic, who form the artist group Biokinetic, display a screen made out of various types of tissue onto which short films are projected. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, the directors of the Living Culture and Art Project, brought us “Victimless Leather” (a tiny jacket grown out of living tissue) in 2004. Their more recent work “Noark II” explores the creative potential of transgenic science and is a “unified collection of unclassifiable sub-organisms.” Kathy High’s “Petition for Lab Rat Shelter” is a less cryptic exhibit. She has adopted lab rats injected with human DNA and taken care of their physical needs as well as, perhaps, their emotional.
Admission is free and lectures by Rich Pell, founder of the Center for Postnatural History, and Oleg Mavromatti, and co-founder of ULTRAFUTURO will be giving lectures beginning at 6pm.
Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave (on the corner of 36th Street)
Tuesday – Thursday 10am–6pm
Friday 10am – 8pm
Saturday 12-8pm
Closed Sunday and Monday
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