Bioism: new living art forms - The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I was born in the Soviet Union in what is currently Ukraine. I loved to draw as an infant; and I had a few prizes. Following high school I went on to study economics. However, I was not content with the prospect of a full-time future at the workstation of a boring, dusty office. Then I decided to pursue at art with a serious approach, which eventually brought me to the classes of Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. After that, I moved on to be a student of Shirin Neshat in Salzburg."
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"Making artwork for me, is an important process of creating impossible and imagined realms.
Aliens-like visuals, mystical forms and feelings - that is what I love to visualize and think about. Naturally, during my early years, like everyone, I started with all the things that surrounded me however, I soon became dissatisfied with interpreting the most well-known facts about visuals.
The desire to make all deviations imaginable and artefacts that are not known to me inspired me to create completely new universes."
How would you describe your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My daily contemplation and statement is:
Biofuturism or Bioism is an endeavor to develop life-like living things and new aesthetics of future biological life. Bioism can be described as a method to design art-related objects that express visual possibilities of synthetic biological processes. Bioism is a method to produce art based on vitality, multiplicity and complexity. Each work as an actual living thing. Bioism brings life to lifeless subject matter.
Personally, I am convinced that in the near future after a biological revolution, we'll use living furniture, dwell in live-in homes, as well as travel through space with living spaces. The most fascinating thing will be the ability of artists to work with living substances, thereby constructing new forms of life. Artistic expression will gain the practical feeling of being born. Fantastical might be reactions of objects of art to their maker and the environment. The art museums of the future may transform into zoological parks, galleries into new life biodiversity funds, and art galleries into biology labs.
Bioism aims to spread the new and infinite types of life across the universe. Paradise engineering represents an advance in bioethics...
This manifesto, as I see it, can never be finished, as I am myself a biological process, which is currently working on the issue."
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What is the key in making your installation?
"I am trying to avoid any primitive geometrics: No straight lines, or the absence of lines, in the event that it is feasible. I am chasing after the collision between the macro and micro on an everyday basis.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complex will be immediately perceived by the human eye as living or organic. Biology is the deepest and most complicated information structure of our planet."
Church is a formal place. Is it stressful to create within such a place?
"It depends on your inner beliefs, fears, or the degree of uncertainty you have regarding your relationship to the world of humankind. Personally, I've got none of the knowledge about the concept of time, space and all their marvels. So when I go to the church, I am like a curious child in a large and strange play area that has some kind of communication purpose.
I try to be respectful toward its artistry, but I do not overlook its fun side, the part about conversing with a god. It's a little similar to an XXL telephone booth, where you can talk while trying to hear you can also laugh."
How much are you in charge of the creation process and what percentage of the creation process involves bioism?
"Controlling chaos can be a difficult undertaking. My inner ear and eyes is always listening for an unknown melody and to discover a new shapes, that speak to me and touches the imagination of my. It's not just a an all-in-one process, where you behave like an mining machine, finding the most interesting gems and dumping a lot of trash of uninteresting possibilities to your back. For me, it's not a good idea.
I often combine my fascinations with other minor possibilities in order to create not just a pleasant music, but a deviative revelation as well. One of the most rewarding aspects of this work is to create a brand new world, as you are already imagining what it should look like. Sometime you are in a dream; sometimes it comes at night, while you sleep. However, the fact is that - the more I make my own world, the more joys I get, where chaos becomes my friend in growing bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it or find something other than enjoyment from it? For instance, mediation or reaching out to your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. Additionally, I draw as I discover myself and see the extent to which I might amaze myself, as well as how my universe could amaze me, which takes into account every possible activity in this enigmatic path. Sometimes, the humor is funny for sure, but sometimes, if I'm in need of more adrenaline, I venture out into the world and perform an intervention."
What was your path to bioism? What did you try before it?
"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 long periods of time, trying to draw nature's movements on the cardboard. In the end, I created several portraits. However, I became so unhappy, so bored with the dullness of human faces that were reproduced (including photos and video), that I stopped. At that point, the shell of my egg was broken and I emerged like the phoenix (or Godzilla). That means that I became closer to the secret of life. What does that mean? It is not to describe the current one, but to compose a new one. That was the birth day of my bioethics and bioism."
When I was going through your IG I was thinking Bioism may be interested in homelessness within LA...
"But it was a contrary story It was cold in the streets, and lonely residents were content to be touched by any touch from a human, to be able to hear the Christmas tale of the new-born bioism, and play with the little blue children of it.
The bare poverty of the beaches of Hollywood may trigger to take a completely different route in my mind. I need to consider the philosophical aspects of bioism in a fictional Diogenes of Venice."
For more information about Aljoscha's collection of works and to dive deeper into bioism look up his Instagram and the current installation in The cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.