Ancestry – before DNA test – considered through drawing

Mike Croft

About this exposition

The exposition is deliberately incomplete not only because, arguably, this is the nature of research, but due to the author's working with a sense of in-the-meantime, while waiting for the results of a DNA Ancestry test. The research is therefore a preemptive response to a genetics and identity project to be explored through drawing, hosted by i3S, Institute of Investigation and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Portugal. The exposition presents a degree of drift from a starting-point of family photos processed through drawing by a fictional artist, to a more conceptual idea of microbiological cells of which their content is increasingly fragmented text. As the drawing process develops, the use of coffee-staining is a key medium, its geographical origin conferring roughly with that of the human species. Such drift of content between creative writing, visualisation, and academic writing, is possible on the basis that the author does not as yet have a clear idea of what the DNA Ancestry findings will disclose or how they will look. An after-the-test exposition will follow the present exposition – which is interesting in terms of how such future knowledge will be in the wake of, and responsive to, a stage of indetermination.

type	research exposition
date	15/05/2023
published	30/01/2024
last modified	30/01/2024
status	published
affiliation	i2ADS
copyright	Michael Croft
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2143958/2143959
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/i2ads.2143958
published in	i2ADS - Research Institute in Art, Design and Society
portal issue	0. Art, Design & Society

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