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Heyo soft-skinners
Thanks so much Byron, Lindsay and Kathy (and Nina) for your contributions.
I oscillate between struggle with and adoring the absurdity of the world
and we seem to be in a very absurdist time. I find myself despairing and
then am delighted by art projects that poke at the absurd. The bio-art
(however you define it) projects that I love are the ones that are
seriously playful and playfully serious, those that resist the urge to
take biology too seriously but show us the nasty under the banal. Both
Lindsay's and Kathy's works do this and so many others (Loren
Kronemyer's and Ian Sinclair's "Ecosexual bathhouse" is doing this for
me at the moment
http://helloponyexpress.com/projects/#/ecosexualbathhouse/). I would
love to able to make laugh out loud and absurdist artworks, but my work
tends to manifest as more serious than I expect.
Do you find that your works do this or are they more ridiculous than you
expect? How does collaboration (with non/humans) affect this process for
you?
Tarsh Bates
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