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"I was born in the Soviet Union in what is today Ukraine. I loved to draw as a child; I even received several awards. Following high school I went on to study economics. However, I did not feel content with the idea of having a career that was full-time an uninteresting desk in a, dusty office. Then I decided to pursue the art field seriously. This led me into the class taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat from Salzburg."
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"Making art for me is an essential method of creating unimaginable and imagined worlds.
Alien-like aesthetics, unearthly feelings and shapes - that is exactly what I enjoy to imagine and visualize. Naturally, during my early years, like everyone, I started with my surroundings however, I soon became unsatisfied by the way I interpreted the most well-known facts about visuals.
In the quest to produce every possible variation and artefact with no known origins inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
How would you describe your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My daily contemplation and statement is:
Bioism , also known as biofuturism, is my endeavor to develop new living forms and a new aesthetics of future organic life. Bioism can be described as a method to design art-related objects that convey the aesthetic possibilities of synthetic life. Bioism is an effort to make art using vitality, multiplicity and complexity. Each of my works as living things. Bioism brings life to lifeless subject matter.
Personally, I think that in the future, in the wake of the biological revolution, we will use living furniture, live in living homes as well as travel through space with living spaces. The most fascinating feature will be the capability of artists to work with living materials, and thus create novel forms of life. The art form will take on the practical sensation of birth. Fantastical might be reactions of art object to its creator and its surroundings. Future art museums may transform into zoological parks and galleries, they could be transformed into biodiversity funds, and art galleries into bio-labs.
Bioism is a movement to create the new and infinite forms of life throughout the entire universe. Paradise engineering is an advance in bioethics...
The manifesto I see it, can never be completed, since I am myself a biological process still working on the issue."
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What's the secret to making your installations?
"I attempt to steer clear of the use of primitive geometrics, which means no straight lines, even the absence of lines, as far as is possible. I am chasing after the collision between micro and macro on an everyday basis.
Anything that isn't understood, or too complicated is instantly perceived by the human eye as living or organic. Biology is the most deep and most intricate information structure of our planet."
Church is a formal place. Are you stressed to make within such a place?
"It is based on your own inner beliefs, fears, or even how unsure you are about your connection to the universe of humanity. Personally, I've got no idea about time, space and its amazing wonders. An so when in the church, I am like a curious child in the vast and mysterious play area that has some kind of communication purpose.
I try to be respectful towards it as an artist However, I also don't ignore its fun aspect, the part about talking to a Deity. It's like an XXL phone booth. While talking or trying to understand you could also laugh."
What is your level of control of the process of creation and how much of the process is all biological?
"Controlling chaos is a challenging endeavor. My inner ear and eyes is always listening for the possibility of a new tune or shapes, that speak to me and reaches the imagination of my. It's not just a one way process where you act just like a mining machine: collecting lucky gemstones and dumping a lot of trash of not interesting possibilities to your back. Not for me.
My fascinations are often combined and other interests in order to create not just a pleasant music, but a deviative revelation as well. One of the most rewarding aspects of the work is to create a brand new world, while you already feel how it ought to look. Sometime you are in a dream or even in the night while sleeping. The fact remains that the more I design my own world, the more joys I am able to experience. Chaos can be my companion in the growth of bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it or are you able to find something other than enjoyment from it? For instance, meditation or communication with your vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. In addition, I draw while discovering myself - how far I could amaze myself, and also how much my universe could be able to surprise me. This involves every possible activity along this unusual path. Sometimes, it's funny for sure, but sometimes, if I'm in need of more adrenaline, I head out in the world to make an appearance."
What was your path to becoming a bioist? 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 which meant I could lie in the grass for hours at a time trying to draw natural movements onto the paper. After that I even made portraits. But I was so dissatisfied, frustrated by the flatness of any reproduced human face (including photos and video) which is why I stopped. The moment I stopped, the shell of my egg was broken and I emerged as the phoenix (or Godzilla). This means I came closer to the secret of life. What exactly is it? It is not to describe the one that is already in place and to create the new one. It was the first day of my bioethics and bioism."
As I perused your IG I thought that bioism could be interested in homelessness within LA...
"But it was a contrary story that it was freezing in the streets, and lonely people were happy to get every human touch, hear the Christmas art-story of the new-born bioism, and to play with little blue baby of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the beaches of Hollywood might cause by me an entirely different perspective in my mind. I need to consider the philosophical aspects of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes in Venice."
To see more of Aljoscha's body of work and dive deeper into bioism check out the artist's Instagram as well as the latest installation in the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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