Bioism: the new art of living forms The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I came from the Soviet Union in what is now called Ukraine. I was a huge fan of drawing as an infant; and I received several awards. After high-school I went on to study economics. However, I was not content with the prospect of working full-time at the desk of a dull dirty office. Therefore, I decided to take art seriously, which led me into the class taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Then, I was able to be a student of Shirin Neshat in Salzburg."
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"Making art for me is an important method of creating unimaginable imaginary universes.
Alien-like aesthetics, unearthly images and forms - this is exactly what I enjoy to think about and imagine. Of course, in my younger years, as with all of us, I began with my surroundings, but very soon felt dissatisfied with interpreting known visual information.
The desire to make all deviations imaginable and artefacts that are not known to me inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
What is the style you use in your work?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Biofuturism or Bioism is an effort to design life-like living things and modern aesthetic for future living things. Bioism is an approach to design art-related objects that express visual possibilities of synthetic life. Bioism is a method to produce art based on vitality, multiplicity and complexity. I view each of my works as living things. Bioism brings life to lifeless objects.
Personally, I think that in the coming years after the biological revolution, we'll use living furniture, reside in live-in homes, as well as travel through space with living stations. However, the most interesting feature will be the capability of artists to use living things, creating new forms of life. Artistic expression will gain an actual sensation of birth. Fantastical might be reactions of art object to its maker and the environment. Future art museums might transform into zoological gardens galleries that could become new diversity funds, ateliers into biological laboratories.
Bioism aims to spread new and endless types of life across the universe. Paradise engineering is the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
This manifesto, I believe, will never be finished, as I'm a biochemical process that is still in the process of completing the issue."
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What are the most important factors in making your installation?
"I try to stay clear of the use of primitive geometrics, which means no straight lines, even no lines at all, in the event that it is feasible. I am chasing after the intersection between both macro and micro a regular day basis.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complicated is instantly recognized by our inner eye as living or organic. Biology is the most deep and most intricate information structure in the universe."
The church is a formal space. Is it stressful to create in such area?
"It depends on your inner desires, your hidden burdens or the degree of uncertainty you have regarding your relationship to the world of humankind. Personally, I've got no idea about space, time and their marvels. So when I go to the church, I am like a child with a curiosity in an enormous and bizarre playground with has some sort or communication capability.
I strive to be kind toward its artistry However, I also don't forget about its entertainment side, the part about speaking to the Deity. It's a little like an XXL-style phone booth. While talking or trying to understand you could be funny too."
How much do you have control of the creation process and how much of the process is all biological?
"Controlling chaos can be a difficult venture. My inner ear and eye are all about to receive an unknown melody or shape, which speaks to me and touches the imagination of my. It's not just a an all-in-one process, where you act just like mining machines: taking lucky gems of fascinations and dumping a lot of trash of non-interesting options in your face. This is not for me.
I do combine fascinations and other interests for a not-so-pleasant tune, but kind of unexpected revelations as well. The best part of the work is to create a brand new world, while you already feel how it should look like. Sometime you are in a dream and other times it happens at night, while you sleep. The fact remains that the more I create and create, the greater pleasures I experience, and chaos can be my companion in the growth of bioism."
Do you enjoy creating or find something other than enjoyment from it, like meditation or communication with your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Additionally, I draw by observing myself to see how far I could amaze myself, and how else the universe can be able to surprise me. This involves any and all possibilities on this strange pathway. Sometimes, it's funny in fact, sometimes I'm feeling more exhilarated, I go out in the world to create an an."
How did you get to 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.
Later I fell in love by drawing landscapes which meant I could lie in the grass for hours at a time trying to draw nature's movements on the cardboard. Then I made portraits. But I was dissatisfied and so bored with the dullness of any reproduced human face (including in videos and photographs) and I halted. At that point, the egg's shell was broken and I emerged like an octopus (or Godzilla). Which means that I became closer to the truth of existence. What is that? It's not to explain the one that is already in place however, it is to write the new one. That was the birth day of my bioism and bioethics."
As I perused your IG I thought that bioism might be interested in homeless issues within LA...
"But there was an opposite narrative that it was freezing on the streets , and the people were happy to get any touch from a human, to listen to the Christmas story of new born bioism and play with the little blue baby of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the beaches of Hollywood might cause by me a totally different approach and I'm forced to think of the philosophical implications of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes in Venice."
For more information about Aljoscha's collection of works and to dive deeper into bioism check out his Instagram and the current installation at The cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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