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 received several awards. After high-school I went on to pursue a degree in economics but wasn't satisfied with the possibility of having a career that was full-time the desk of a dull and dusty workplace. Therefore, I decided to take at art with a serious approach, which eventually brought me to the classes that was taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. After that, I moved on to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat, a teacher from Salzburg."
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"Making art for me is an important process of creating impossible, imagined universes.
Alien-like aesthetics, unearthly images and forms - this is the kind of things I like to imagine and visualize. Of course, in my early years, like all of us, I began with my surroundings however, I soon became unsatisfied by the way I interpreted known visual information.
The desire to make every possible variation and artefact of unknown origin motivated me to create completely new universes."
What is your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Bioism , also known as biofuturism, is my attempt to create new living forms and a new aesthetics of future organic life. Bioism can be described as a method to create art pieces that convey the aesthetic possibilities of synthetic biological processes. Bioism is an effort to produce art based on vitality, multiplicity and complexity. Each work as a living being. Bioism brings life to lifeless subject matter.
Personally, I am convinced that in the future, in the wake of an evolutionary revolution, we'll use living furniture, live in living houses, as well as travel through space with living spaces. But the most exciting feature will be the capability of artists to work with living things, creating new forms of life. Artistic expression will gain an actual sense of birth. The fantastical could be the reactions of an artwork to the creator and its surroundings. The art museums of the future might transform into zoological gardens, galleries into new life diversity funds, ateliers into biological laboratories.
Bioism is a movement to create different and inexhaustible kinds of life in the world. Paradise engineering is the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
This manifesto, as I believe, will never be finished, as I am myself a biological process that is still in the process of completing it."
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What is the key for you to create your own installations?
"I try to stay clear of any primitive geometrics: No straight lines, or none at all in the event that it is feasible. I'm chasing the collision between both macro and micro an everyday day basis.
Anything unknown or overly complex will be immediately perceived by the human eye as living or organic. Biology is among the deepest and most intricate information structure in the universe."
Church is a formal place. Are you stressed to make in such space?
"It depends on your personal desires, your hidden burdens or the degree of uncertainty you have in your understanding of your place in the world of humankind. Personally, I've got none of the knowledge about time, space and its marvels. An so when in a church, I feel as if I'm a child who's exploring an enormous and bizarre playground with has some sort of communication function.
I try to be respectful toward it as an artist however, I don't overlook its fun side and the aspect of conversing with a god. It is a bit like an XXL phone booth where while talking or trying to listen, you may laugh too."
What is your level of control of the process of creation and how much of it is bioism?
"Controlling chaos can be an extremely challenging undertaking. My eyes and ear are all about to receive the possibility of a new tune or shape, which speaks to me and reaches my imagination. But it is not one way process where you act just like an mining machine, finding the most interesting gems and throwing a plethora of non-interesting options to your back. This is not for me.
My fascinations are often combined and other interests in order to create not just a pleasant melody, but also a deviative revelation too. One of the most rewarding aspects of the work is creating a new universe while you already feel how it should look like. There are times when you dream or even during the night when you are sleeping. However, the fact is that - the more I create my own world, the more joys I get, where chaos is my partner in growing bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it or find something other than enjoyment from it, like the practice of meditation, or communicating with your vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. In addition, I draw while discovering myself - how far I could surprise my own self and how else the universe can be able to surprise me. This involves every possible activity along this unusual path. Sometimes, it's funny indeed, and sometimes if I need more adrenalin I go to the outside world and perform an an."
What was your path towards bioism? What were you experimenting with prior to 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.
In the following years, I was infatuated with landscape drawing, where I would sit on the grass for hours at a time trying to draw natural movements onto the paper. After that I even made several portraits. However, I became so unhappy, being bored of human faces that were reproduced (including photos and video) and I halted. The moment I stopped, the egg's shell was broken and I emerged as a phoenix (or Godzilla). That means that I came closer to the secret of life. What is that? The idea isn't to define the one that is already in place and to create the new one. That was the birth day of my bioethics and bioism."
While browsing your IG I had a thought Bioism may be interested in the issue of homelessness and homelessness in LA...
"But there was an opposite story: it was cold on the streets and lonely people where happy to receive any human touch, to hear the Christmas art-story of new born bioism as well as to play with the tiny blue baby of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the beach of the Hollywood could trigger a totally different approach and I'm forced to think of the philosophical aspects of bioism in a fictional Diogenes of Venice."
To see more of Aljoscha's portfolio of work as well as dive deeper into bioism look up his Instagram as well as the latest installation in the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.