Tissue Culture & Art

Tissue Culture and Art Project

Tissue Culture & Art

Who Is TC&A?

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Oron CattsTissue engineering artist

Ionat ZurrWet biology Art PractitionerGuy Ben-Ary

Tissue Culture & Art

What Is TC&A?

The Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A) was set to explore the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. We are investigating our relationships with the different gradients of life through the construction/growth of a new class of object/being – that of the Semi-Living. These are parts of complex organisms which are sustained alive outside of the body and coerced to grow in predetermined shapes. These evocative objects are a tangible example that brings into question deep rooted perceptions of life and identity, concept of self, and the position of the human in regard to other living beings and the environment. We are interested in the new discourses and new ethics/epistemologies that surround issues of partial life and the contestable future scenarios they are offering us.

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NoArk Project

• Questioning biological and cultural classifications

• A new vessel for new life• Chimerical blob/neoorganism• Rotating bioreactor (life support) and a

collection of dead and preserved animal specimens.

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Victimless Leather

• Questioning the concept of a “garment”• Grown out of cell and form a living layer of tissue supported by a biodegradable polymer matrix in a form of miniature stichless coat like shape.

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Beyond

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SymbioticA