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 & Leonardo Music Journal
JF - Leonardo & Leonardo Music Journal
IS - 1
ER -