Lifeboat biotech arts mobile performance lab - Catts, Helyer, Hodgetts, Pell, Zurr

Undertaking its maiden voyage across the Baltic for ISEA 2004, the LifeBoat project was a collaborative trans-disciplinary work by Dr. Nigel Helyer (Sonic Objects) Dr. Sarah Jane Pell (ARTi), Oron Catts and Dr. Ionat Zurr (SymbioticA) and Dr. Stuart Hodgetts (UWA). "LifeBoat" is a prosaic title indicating both the physical reality (the project is contained within a fully weatherproofed ship's lifeboat) and somewhat more conceptually, as the lifeboat has become home to a Biotechnology and performance lab; a home to the processes of life itself. On a metaphorical level, this project is designed to deal with concepts of sustainability, survival and notions of biological, cultural and ideological re-generation, and naturally its obverse, the degradation of life and all its manifestations. Visit the LifeBoat at http://www.life-boat.org/

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• biotechnology
• art
• performance
• artists
• ISEA
• Sarah Jane Pell
• Nigel Helyer
• Oron Catts
• Ionat Zurr
• Stuart Hodgetts
• bioart
• Australian