Bioism: New living art forms The CreativeMindClass Blog
"I am a native of the Soviet Union in what is currently Ukraine. I was a huge fan of drawing as when I was a kid; I received several awards. In high school, I decided to pursue a degree in economics but was not content with the prospect of having a career that was full-time the workstation of a boring, dusty office. Then I decided to pursue the art field seriously. This brought me to the classes that was 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 art for me is a significant process of creating impossible, imagined worlds.
Aliens-like visuals, mystical feelings and shapes - that is exactly what I enjoy to think about and imagine. Naturally, during my early years, like everyone, I started with all the things that surrounded me, but very soon felt unhappy with the interpretation of the most well-known facts about visuals.
The desire to make all deviations imaginable and artefacts with no known origins inspired me to compose utterly new universes."
How would you describe your art style?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My everyday thought and declaration is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my attempt to create bio-inspired living organisms and modern aesthetic for future living things. Bioism can be described as a method to design art-related objects that express visual possibilities of synthetic life. Bioism is an effort to produce art based on vitality, multiplicity and complexity. Each work as an actual living thing. Bioism extends life to lifeless subject matter.
Personally, I am convinced that in the near future, in the wake of the biological revolution, we will use living furniture, reside in living houses, as well as travel through space with living stations. But the most exciting aspect will be the capacity of artists to use living materials, and thus create different forms of living. The art form will take on the practical feeling of being born. The fantastical could be the reactions of an objects of art to their creator and surroundings. Art museums of the future may transform into zoological parks galleries that could become new biodiversity funds, and art galleries into biological laboratories.
Bioism aims to spread different and inexhaustible forms of life throughout the universe. Paradise engineering represents an advance in bioethics...
This manifesto, I feel, will never be complete, because I'm a biochemical process, which is currently working on the issue."
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What are the most important factors to making your installations?
"I am trying to avoid the use of primitive geometrics, which means none of the straight lines or no lines at all, as far as is possible. I am chasing after the collision of both macro and micro a daily basis.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complex will be immediately perceived by the human eye as living or organic. Biology is among the deepest and most intricate information structure in the universe."
Church is a formal place. Are you stressed to make the space?
"It is based on your own inner desires, your hidden burdens or the degree of uncertainty you have regarding your relationship to the universe of humanity. Personally, I have almost no idea about the concept of time, space and all their amazing wonders. When I am in a church, I feel as if I'm a child who's exploring an enormous and bizarre play area that has some kind of communication function.
I strive to be kind towards it as an artist However, I also don't overlook its fun side, the part about talking to a Deity. It's a little like an XXL-style phone booth, where you can talk while trying to hear you can also laugh."
How much are you in control of the process of creation and what percentage of the creation process involves biological?
"Controlling chaos is a challenging undertaking. My inner ear and eyes are all about to receive the possible unknown tune, to find unknown shapes, that speak to me and touches my imagination nerve. It's not just a only one-way process in which you behave like mining machines: collecting lucky gemstones and dumping a lot of trash of uninteresting possibilities in your face. This is not for me.
My fascinations are often combined along with other possibilities minor to achieve not only pleasant melody, but also a deviative revelation also. One of the most rewarding aspects of this work is to compose new world as you are already imagining what it ought to look. Sometime you are in a dream and other times it happens in the night while sleeping. However, the fact is that - the more I create, the more blisses I experience, and chaos can be my companion in the growth of bioism."
Are you a creative person who enjoys it, or do you get something else out of it? For instance, mediation or reaching out to your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Additionally, I draw while discovering myself - what I can do to amaze myself, and also how much the universe can surprise me - which involves any and all possibilities in this enigmatic path. Sometimes it gets funny, in fact, sometimes I need more adrenalin I head out in the world to perform an an."
How did you get to 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.
Later I fell in love with landscape drawing, where I could sit in the grass for hours at a time, trying to draw motions of nature on the board. After that I even made some portraits, but I was so dissatisfied, so bored with the dullness of any human figure that was reproduced (including in videos and photographs) which is why I stopped. At that point, the egg's shell was broken and I emerged as the phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I became closer to the truth of existence. What does that mean? It is not to describe the one that is already in place, but to compose an entirely new version. That was the birth day of my bioethics and bioism."
While browsing your IG I thought that bioism could be interested in homeless issues within LA...
"But it was a contrary story that it was freezing on the streets and lonely people were happy to get every human touch, be able to hear the Christmas tale of the new-born bioism, as well as to play with the tiny blue children of it.
The bare poverty of the beaches of Hollywood might cause by me a totally different approach and I'm forced to think of the philosophical aspects of bioism in a fictional Diogenes of Venice."
To see more of Aljoscha's collection of works and to go deeper into bioism, check out his Instagram and the current installation in the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.