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In the temporarily living sculpture the slime mold acts as an agent of nature, as it grows, moves and covers the defenceless limb. What appears a body-like member, exposes our vulnerability. It hypothesises how by exceedingly cutting ourselves off from natural forms and personal interactions with other lifeforms we grow exposed and vulnerable in time. | In the temporarily living sculpture the slime mold acts as an agent of nature, as it grows, moves and covers the defenceless limb. What appears a body-like member, exposes our vulnerability. It hypothesises how by exceedingly cutting ourselves off from natural forms and personal interactions with other lifeforms we grow exposed and vulnerable in time. | ||
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The creative work process is characterised by the numerous difficulties in controlling an organism according to the human will. Ultimately, the artwork is self-organising as the slime mold determines the outcome in response to the conditions of the provided habitat. This includes a possible return to a more natural unpredictability and life cycle beyond the vital, plasmodial stage of growth into the development of spores (sporangia), hibernation (dormant sclerotium) or death. | The creative work process is characterised by the numerous difficulties in controlling an organism according to the human will. Ultimately, the artwork is self-organising as the slime mold determines the outcome in response to the conditions of the provided habitat. This includes a possible return to a more natural unpredictability and life cycle beyond the vital, plasmodial stage of growth into the development of spores (sporangia), hibernation (dormant sclerotium) or death. | ||
In the end, the question of how living matter relates to the characteristics of form is posed: Will the slime mold Physarum polycephalum behave in a desired way in this new | In the end, the question of how living matter relates to the characteristics of form is posed: Will the slime mold Physarum polycephalum behave in a desired way in this new setting? | ||
== Sketches == | |||
Earliest sketches: | |||
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File: | File:kreativfonds skizzen.jpg | ||
File: | File:kreativfonds skizzen2.jpg | ||
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Process sketches: | |||
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File: | File:Processsketch 01.jpeg | ||
File: | File:Processsketch 02.jpg | ||
File: | File:Processsketch 03.jpeg | ||
File: | File:Construction 02.jpeg | ||
File: | File:Construction01.jpeg | ||
File: | File:Plexivitrine_jpeg.jpeg | ||
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Final sketches: | |||
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File: | File:Finalsculpture sketch .jpeg | ||
File: | File:Finalsculpture incubator.jpeg | ||
File:Finalsculpture_waxbranch.jpeg | |||
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== 'Body Habitat - creeping garden' - the publication == | |||
The exhibited sculpture (currently still in final stages of construction) will be accompanied by a comprehensive reader that illustrates the concept, interaction with the living slime mold (design experiments) and additional considerations on the interspecies interaction with this fascinating, alien organism. | |||
Entire pdf: [[:File:Body habitat creeping garden_thereader_Jakubek.pdf]] |
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