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HIDDEN
TOPOLOGIES OF BEING – series 2009 -2015
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Our perception and understanding of the
phenomenon of life has been changing drastically in last decades. Aristotle’s
concept of life based on the notion of a living organism, which prevailed in
the humanistic tradition for over two thousand years, is no more valid
because we acknowledged that life “happens” on the molecular level. Many
scientists associate life with a replicating gene. Identifying life processes
with processing (preserving / transmitting / exchanging) information. Nevertheless there are other ways of
understanding life i.e. focused more on thermodynamic than genetic issues.
Another perception of life is associated with the “life imprint”: a pattern
that can be distinguished in in the physical environment indicating some
highly organized activities we could recognize as life. Taking into account interconnections between all
definitions of life, in this series of works I am investigating yet another
perspective in which life is perceived as a mode of existence of space and,
vice versa, space is treated as a mode of existence of life. This tautological description implies the
comprehension of life as a particular spatiotemporal organization and a “unit
of life” (or an “individual existence”) as an integral fragment of its
physical environment, but also locates its parameters at the heart of a rich
history of human culture, grounded in the diversity and changes of our
spatiotemporal apprehension of reality. “Hidden
Topologies of Being” embraces a series of multimedia works realized with the
support of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
in New Delhi, CEMA Centre for Experimental Media Art & the National
Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore , DKFZ German Cancer Research
Centre Heidelberg University, DE |
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