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===Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, Sterile===

Sterile is a project by Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, which is a genetically modified Albino goldfish (Fig. 5.). At the Schering Foundation exhibition space in Berlin it is shown along other works, including the video Kingyo Kingdom, which follows fish breeders in Japan and at the same time contextualizes the genetically modified fish and Sensei Ichi-gō, a machine capable of reproducing sterile goldfish. Within the project description, Sterile is described as follows:

The important part of the project is that the fishes were not sterilized after they were born but genetically modified in order not to have reproductive organs. In such a way, artists show their responsibility in front of all eco sphere as the genetically modified animals are not breeding modified in the next generations, leaving the project limited until the fishes die naturally. Having the fish born sterile, the project questions genetic modifications made by humans in relation to a naturally evolving environment.

Also, an important message in Sterile is a blurring out a border line between objects and subjects: a fish being technically engineered to become an object or machine programmed to become similar to a living organism. The idea of an object becoming a subject and vice versa is conceptualized around a machine-human rhizome within the context of the umbrella project of this paper Introduction to Posthuman Aesthetics, which proposes a subjective perspective on discourses in contemporary aesthetics.

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