Displaying the researched body: Growing cell portraits in a medical museum

TY - JOUR

T1 - Displaying the researched body

T2 - Growing cell portraits in a medical museum

AU - Whiteley, Louise

AU - Tybjerg, Karin

AU - Pedersen, Bente Vinge

PY - 2017/2/1

Y1 - 2017/2/1

N2 - In Heirloom, artist Gina Czarnecki and scientist John Hunt grow portraits of the artist’s daughters from the daughters’ own cells onto glass casts of their faces. This required the development of novel scientific techniques to allow the growth of human cells in a gallery. Heirloom was exhibited at Medical Museion as a part of the EU Creative Europe project Trust Me, I’m an Artist. Here, the authors discuss three key issues raised by the artwork and its curation; (1) consent and ownership with regard to bodily materials, (2) biological portraiture and identity, and (3) DIY and depicting the future.

AB - In Heirloom, artist Gina Czarnecki and scientist John Hunt grow portraits of the artist’s daughters from the daughters’ own cells onto glass casts of their faces. This required the development of novel scientific techniques to allow the growth of human cells in a gallery. Heirloom was exhibited at Medical Museion as a part of the EU Creative Europe project Trust Me, I’m an Artist. Here, the authors discuss three key issues raised by the artwork and its curation; (1) consent and ownership with regard to bodily materials, (2) biological portraiture and identity, and (3) DIY and depicting the future.

U2 - 10.1162/LEON_a_01358

DO - 10.1162/LEON_a_01358

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0024-094X

VL - 50

SP - 86

EP - 87

JO - Leonardo Music Journal

JF - Leonardo Music Journal

IS - 1

ER -