CELLER TIL SALG: KUNSTNERISKE FORTOLKNINGER AF VÆVSØKONOMIER

Forfattere

  • Pernille Leth-Espensen Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Kunsthistorie, Aarhus Universitet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v45i124.26343

Nøgleord:

biokunst, bioværdi, vævsøkonomi, celler, kunst

Resumé

CELLS FOR SALE: ARTISTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF TISSUE ECONOMIES An extensive circulation of human tissue is taking place in our society today: blood, organs, reproductive tissue (eggs and semen), and cell lines. This circulation and commercialisation is thematised by a range of contemporary artists, who creates artworks with cell and tissue culture technologies. The artist Alicia King has bought Hs 53.T cells from the cell bank ATCC (The American Type Culture Collection) and created a monument around this cell line. These cells originate from a 13-year old Afro-American girl, and the cell sample was taken in 1969. The artist Chrissy Conant instead uses her own tissue. She has ’harvested’ 12 of her own eggs at a fertility clinic, preserved them in glass jars with a lid inspired by caviar packaging, and put them for sale at $250.000. In the article it is argued that the artworks address the commercial relations in cell and tissue culture technologies by making visible technologies or processes that are unknown to the broader public or through a strategy of exaggeration.

 

Forfatterbiografi

Pernille Leth-Espensen, Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Kunsthistorie, Aarhus Universitet

Postdoc på Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur, Aarhus Universitet

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Publiceret

2018-08-07

Citation/Eksport

Leth-Espensen, P. (2018). CELLER TIL SALG: KUNSTNERISKE FORTOLKNINGER AF VÆVSØKONOMIER. K&K - Kultur Og Klasse, 45(124). https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v45i124.26343

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