Omnis natura artificiosa est. Project The Symbiosity of Creation in the light of the theory of paraartistic values Cover Image

Omnis natura artificiosa est. Projekt Symbiotyczność tworzenia w świetle teorii wartości paraartystycznych
Omnis natura artificiosa est. Project The Symbiosity of Creation in the light of the theory of paraartistic values

Author(s): Paula Milczarczyk
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Sociology of Art
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku
Keywords: contemporary art; new media;; interdisciplinarity research; aesthetics; philosophy; art-critics; bio-art

Summary/Abstract: The Symbiosity of Creation (2012 – ca. 2034) by Jarosław Czarnecki (aka Elvin Flamingo) is an interdisciplinary art and research project which consists of six mobile incubators, whose interiors recreate the natural habitat of three species of ants. The project consists of three part-stories: “The Reconstruction of Non-human Culture”, “The Kingdom of the Shared Quotidian”, and “After Humans. The Biocorporation”, plus the recordings of failed attempts to create the colony collected in the form of “Subterranean Struggle”. As a result of the materials used (in vivo organism) Czarnecki’s work may seem to be a typical bio-art piece. In my text I would like to point out one very important, yet so far overlooked, critical aspect of the project and show Czarnecki’s artistic activities in the light of the theory of paraartistic values contained in the book Reality aesthetics by Maria Gołaszewska.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 84-91
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish