Bioism: New living art forms The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I am a native of the Soviet Union in what is currently Ukraine. I was a huge fan of drawing as when I was a kid; I received several awards. After high-school I went on to study economics. However, I was not content with the prospect of a full-time future at an uninteresting desk in a and dusty workplace. Then I decided to pursue the art field seriously. This resulted in me enrolling in the class taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to study under Shirin Neshat, a teacher from Salzburg."
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"Making artwork for me, is an essential method of creating unimaginable imaginary worlds.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural images and forms - this is exactly what I enjoy to imagine and visualize. Naturally, during my youth, just like everybody else, I was drawn to the things which surrounded me, but very soon felt unsatisfied by the way I interpreted well-known visual facts.
The desire to make any variation that is possible and artefacts of unknown origin motivated me to design completely unique universes."
What would you say about your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My daily contemplation and statement is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my endeavor to develop bio-inspired living organisms and new aesthetics of future organic life. Bioism can be described as a method to design art-related objects that demonstrate the visual potential of synthetic life. Bioism attempts to make art using energy, variety and complexity. I regard each work as living things. Bioism extends life to lifeless subjects.
Personally, I believe that in the coming years following a biological revolution, we'll be using living furniture, live in living homes and travel in space using living spaces. But the most exciting feature will be the capability of artists to work with living things, creating novel forms of life. Artistic expression will gain an actual sensation of birth. It could be a reaction of the objects of art to their creator and surroundings. Future art museums may transform into zoological parks galleries that could become new diversification funds, and ateliers to biology labs.
Bioism is a movement to create new and endless types of life across the entire universe. Paradise engineering can be described as an advance in bioethics...
This manifesto, as I believe, will never be complete, because I myself am a living process that is still in the process of completing it."
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What's the secret to making your installations?
"I attempt to steer clear of any primitive geometrics: no straight lines, even the absence of lines, in the event that it is feasible. I'm trying to find the collision of both macro and micro an everyday routine.
Anything unknown or overly complex is immediately noticed by our eyes as organic or somehow alive. Biology is the most deep and most complicated information structure in the universe."
A church can be a formal setting. Is it stressful to create within such a place?
"It depends on your inner desires, your hidden burdens or the degree of uncertainty you have in your understanding of your place in the human universe. Personally, I have almost zero knowledge of the concept of time, space and all their marvels. An so when in the church, I am like a child with a curiosity in a large and strange play area that has some kind or communication capability.
I try to be respectful towards it as an artist, but I do not ignore its fun aspect and the aspect of talking to a Deity. It's similar to an XXL telephone booth, where you can talk while trying to listen, you may laugh too."
What is your level of charge of the creation process and what percentage of the process is all bioism?
"Controlling chaos can be an extremely challenging venture. My inner ear and eye is always listening for the possibility of a new tune or shape, which speaks to me and reaches my imagination. But it is not one way process where you behave like mining machines: collecting lucky gemstones and throwing hell of waste of not interesting possibilities to your back. This is not for me.
I do combine fascinations along with other possibilities minor for a not-so-pleasant music, but a surprising and unexpected results too. The most precious part of my work is the ability to create a brand new world, as you are already imagining what the final product should appear. There are times when you dream and other times it happens at night, while you sleep. The fact remains that the more I create and create, the greater pleasures I get, where chaos is my partner in growing bioism."
Do you enjoy creating or are you able to find something other than enjoyment from it? For instance, mediation or reaching out to your most vulnerable part?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. In addition, I draw as I discover myself and see how far I could surprise my own self and also how much the universe might surprise me - which involves any and all possibilities along this unusual path. Sometimes, it's funny for sure, but sometimes, if I'm in need of more adrenaline, I head out into the world and perform an intervention."
How did you get to bioism? How did you get started? you made the switch?
"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 where I would sit on the grass for long periods of time, trying to draw motions of nature on the board. In the end, I created portraits. But I became so unhappy, being bored of any human figure that was reproduced (including photos and video) which is why I stopped. At that point, the shell of my egg fell off and I was revealed as a phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I became closer to the secret of life. What exactly is it? It is not to describe the current one, but to compose an entirely new version. This was the day I began to create of my bioethics and bioism."
While browsing your IG I had a thought Bioism may be interested in homeless issues within LA...
"But there was an opposite story It was cold on the streets and lonely residents were content to be touched by any touch from a human, to listen to the Christmas story of the new-born bioism, as well as to play with the tiny blue baby of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the beach of the Hollywood might cause by me a totally different approach and I'm forced to think of the philosophical aspects of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes in Venice."
For more information about Aljoscha's portfolio of work as well as explore bioism in greater depth, check out the artist's Instagram as well as the latest installation at the cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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