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"I was born in the Soviet Union in what is currently Ukraine. I loved to draw as when I was a kid; I received several awards. Following high school I went on to study economics. However, I wasn't satisfied with the possibility of a full-time future at the desk of a dull, dusty office. Therefore, I decided to take at art with a serious approach, which eventually led me into the class taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to study under Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making my art is an important process of creating impossible, imagined universes.
Alien-like aesthetics, unearthly images and forms - this is what I love to think about and imagine. Of course, in my youth, just like everybody else, I was drawn to the things which surrounded me and then I began to feel unsatisfied by the way I interpreted known visual information.
In the quest to produce all deviations imaginable and artefacts with no known origins inspired me to design completely unique universes."
What is your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My daily contemplation and statement is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my attempt to create bio-inspired living organisms and fresh aesthetic for the future of living things. Bioism is a way to design art-related objects that express visual possibilities of synthetic biological processes. Bioism is a method to make art using vitality, multiplicity and complexity. I regard each of my works as living things. Bioism brings life to lifeless objects.
Personally, I think that in the coming years, in the wake of a biological revolution, we'll be using living furniture, reside in live-in homes, as well as travel through space with live stations. But the most exciting feature will be the capability of artists to use living things, creating new forms of life. Artistic expression will gain the practical sensation of birth. Fantastical might be reactions of artwork to the maker and the environment. Future art museums might transform into zoological gardens galleries that could become new biodiversity funds, and art galleries into biology labs.
Bioism is a movement to create new and endless forms of life throughout the entire universe. Paradise engineering can be described as the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
This manifesto, as I believe, will never be finished, as I'm a biochemical process, which is currently working on it."
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What is the key for you to create your own installations?
"I try to stay clear of all primitive geometric structures: no straight lines, even the absence of lines, in the event that it is feasible. I am chasing after the collision of micro and macro on an everyday basis.
Anything unknown or overly complex will be immediately recognized by our inner eye as living or organic. Biology is the most deep and most complicated information structure of the world."
The church is a formal space. Do you find it difficult to work the place?
"It depends on your inner beliefs, fears, or how uncertain you are in your understanding of your place in the world of humankind. For me, I'm almost none of the knowledge about space, time and their amazing wonders. An so when in the church, I am as if I'm a child who's exploring the vast and mysterious playground with has some sort of communication function.
I try to be respectful towards its artistry, but I do not forget about its entertainment side that is conversing with a god. It is a bit like an XXL phone booth. While talking or trying to understand you could also laugh."
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 undertaking. My inner ear and eyes are all about to receive an unknown melody, to find unknown shape, which speaks to me, and stimulates the imagination of my. However, it's not a only one-way process in which you behave like an mining machine, taking lucky gems of fascinations and dumping a lot of trash of not interesting possibilities in your face. This is not for me.
I often combine my fascinations with other minor possibilities in order to create not just a pleasant music, but a unexpected revelations too. The best part of this work is to create a brand new world, as you are already imagining what it ought to look. There are times when you dream or even at night, while you sleep. But the certainty is - the more I design my own world, the more joys I experience, and chaos becomes my friend in growing bioism."
Do you have fun creating or are you able to get something else out of it, like mediation or reaching out to your vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Also, I create as I discover myself and see how far I could amaze myself, and also how much the universe can surprise me - which involves all possible activities along this unusual path. Sometimes it gets funny, in fact, sometimes I'm feeling more exhilarated, I go to the outside world and perform an intervention."
What led you towards 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.
In the following years, I was infatuated by drawing landscapes where I could sit in the grass for long periods of time, trying to draw natural movements onto the paper. In the end, I created portraits. But I became so unhappy, so bored with the dullness of human faces that were reproduced (including in videos and photographs), that I stopped. At that point, the egg's shell broke and I emerged like an octopus (or Godzilla). That means that I became closer to the mystery of life. What is that? It's not to explain the current one however, it is to write a new one. That was the birth day of bioethics and my bioism."
As I perused your IG I was thinking that bioism might be interested in homeless issues within LA...
"But it was not a good story: it was cold in the streets, and lonely people where happy to receive any human touch, to listen to the Christmas story of the newborn bioism and play with the little blue baby of it.
The naked poverty on the beach of the Hollywood could trigger an entirely different perspective and I'm forced to think of the philosophical implications of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes from Venice."
For more information about Aljoscha's collection of works and to dive deeper into bioism look up his Instagram and the current installation at the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.