Exposition

Life Between Art and Blood (2023)

Heidi Pietarinen, Amna Qureshi

About this exposition

Artist-researchers Heidi Pietarinen and Amna Qureshi from the University of Lapland have conducted in-depth work on the innovative BioARTech laboratory environment and utilisation of available resources for a bioart project called Life Between Art and (Reindeer) Blood. The aim and focus of the project were to utilise reindeer blood as a reindeer herding by-material instead of treating it as waste material. Both artist-researchers were curious to see how nature as a living design medium becomes perceptible to humans. In this study, a living design medium refers to material production that incorporates simple living organisms such as reindeer blood, material-driven design and co-designing, with an entity having its own agency. Bioart can be used to develop innovative design and art practice to work with nature (biology) and the non-human, such as live tissues (i.e. materials engineered by nature itself), microbes or living organisms (birds, insects, trees and blood), to bring about new design solutions and life processes. Through the arts-based research (ABR) approach, this ground-breaking research aims to develop activities that integrate environmental biotechnology, bioart, surface pattern design, and science.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsBioart, reindeer blood, Arts based research, visual cartography, living design medium
date10/03/2023
published09/11/2023
last modified09/11/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationUniversity of Lapland, Finland
copyrightc
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1944362/1944363
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.1944362
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue20. Artivism


Simple Media

id name copyright license
1944417 Dried reindeer blood1a c Public domain
1944419 Dried reindeer Blood2 c Public domain
1944425 Dried reindeer blood1a c Public domain
1944427 Dried reindeer blood1b c Public domain
1944440 Figure 1 Dried reindeer blood c Public domain
1944444 Figure 1 Dried reindeer blood c Public domain
1944449 Fig 2: Painting with reindeer blood in Life between Art and Blood workshop (Amna Qureshi, 2022) c Public domain
1944456 Fig 2: Painting with reindeer blood in Life between Art and Blood workshop (Amna Qureshi, 2022) c Public domain
1944472 Fig 3: Visual Cartographies (Amna Qureshi & Heidi Pietarinen, 2022) c Public domain
1944476 Fig 3: Visual Cartographies (Amna Qureshi & Heidi Pietarinen, 2022) c Public domain
1944483 gujyk g Public domain
1944511 Visual Cartography c Public domain
1944518 Fig 3: Visual Cartographies (Amna Qureshi & Heidi Pietarinen, 2022) c Public domain
1944523 Fig 3: Visual Cartographies (Amna Qureshi & Heidi Pietarinen, 2022) c Public domain
1944565 Life between art and blood.JPG c Public domain
2017037 Visual yes Public domain
2018186 Visual Cartographies_HP_AQ yes CC BY-NC
2018191 Visual Cartographies Yes CC BY-NC
2018241 blood art 3 c CC BY-NC-ND
2261204 fig 4 yes All rights reserved
2261263 fig 4 y All rights reserved

comments: 1 (last entry by Amna Qureshi - 10/03/2023 at 11:28)