Enhancement Technologies and the Politics of Life

Compagna, Diego; Şahinol, Melike

doi:10.1007/s11569-022-00416-z

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“…Within this unique combination of usually very distinct, heterogeneous fields and actions, new forms of enacting emerge in which lifeforms detached from humans can show themselves and, in doing so, simultaneously create life! Merve and Melike Şahinol's art-science interaction shows, on the one hand, Merve's artistic perspective in presenting photographs of clay vulvas she modeled and photographed during therapy sessions This is the introduction to the second part of the special section "Manufacturing Life" [1]. It presents a number of contributions at the interfaces of art and science.…”

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This contribution includes three selected works from an exhibition on Cyborg Encounters. These works deal with hybrid connections of human and non-human species that (might) emerge as a result of enhancement technologies and bio-technological developments. They offer not only an artistic exploration of contemporary but also futuristic aspects of the subject. Followed by an introduction by Melike Şahinol, Critically Endangered Artwork (by Ayşe Melis Okay) highlights Turkey’s ongoing problems of food poverty and the amount of decreasing agricultural lands. It displays seeds of a promising endemic plant to mitigate these problems using the seeds of the Thermopsis Turcica, a herbaceous perennial endemic plant. Ecomasculinist Pregnancy (by Burak Taşdizen and Charles John McKinnon Bell) follows the design fiction methodology and illustrates a future scenario through a patient’s diary and the medical letters he receives during his pregnancy with an extinct sea-lion. Polluted Homes (by Beyza Dilem Topdal) is a fictional art installation consisting of polychaete species evolved in time under the ecological circumstances prevalent in the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara today. These works show, that manufacturing life has consequences, not only for the human body and its physical appearance, but also, for example, for gender orders, the social structure of society, and even the environment, and thus for (re)shaping (non)living matter and their environments. This Art-Science Collection intends to provide an impetus for debate about the extent to which cyborg encounters should be taken seriously.

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Enhancement Technologies and the Politics of Life

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Enhancement Technologies and the Politics of Life: Interfaces of Art and Science

Enhancement Technologies and the Politics of Life: Interfaces of Art and Science

Transforming Sleep?

Cyborg Encounters: Three Art-Science Interactions

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