INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE TO HOSPITALITY: BIO ART PRACTICE NOW

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Institutional Critique to Hospitality: Bio Art Practice Now brings together 13 texts by renowned art historians, art theorists and pioneering artists considering bio art's contemporary relevance.
The first part of the book charts a transition in contemporary bio art practice concerned with a move away from Institutional critique into the idea of Hospitality: Kathy High provides an endearing account of 'Bees and Microbes', while Suzanne Anker reflects on "Three Blind Mice'. Marta de Menezes rethinks 'Representation in Bio art' while Pascale Pollier considers 'The Fabric of Life' with regard to "Fabrica Fitae" exhibition and Aggelos Antonopoulos makes a personal statement with regard to his own contribution to this exhibition. Ellen K. Levy thinks about 'Emergence' in the context of bio art, while Adam Zaretsky provides a critical commentary on contemporary artists' engagement with bio art and loannis Melanitis an autobiographical one.
In the second part of the book, the tension between these two notions and contexts is examined in a historical light: Martin Kemp discusses 'Pros and a few Cons' for ,'Artists in Labs', while Assimina Kaniari considers early precedences of bio artists' gestures in Leonardo's "Trattato". Robert Zwijnenberg examines the affinities between 'Xenotransfusion and Art', Gunalan Nadarajan writes on 'Specters of the Animal' "and Irina Aristarkhova considers 'the Art of Kathy High' as a form of hospitality.
The introduction to the anthology examines Institutional critique and Hospitality as ways of looking at and making sense of bio art today, but also as notions charting and accounting for transitions in art history in terms of artists' engagement with living media - whether on a literal or metaphorical level. (A.K., from the publisher)

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-Introduction
'From Institutional Critique to Hospitality: Aspects and Contexts of Bio Art' / Assimina Kaniari
-Part I. Bio Art as Institutional Critique and Hospitality: Artists' Statements
'Dear Bees and Microbes' / Kathy High
'Three Questions: A Holy Trinity or Three Blind Mice?' / Suzanne Anker and Assimina Kaniari
'Representation in Bio art: Movement and Change' / Marta de Menezes
'Fabrica Vitae. The Fabric of Life' / Pascale Pollier
'Apropos Fabrica Vitae' / Assimina Kaniari in conversation with Aggelos Antonopoulos
'Bioart and Conditions for Emergence' / Ellen K. Levy
'iGMO: inherited Genetic Modification Orgiastics. Philosophy of the Biological Bedroom, a Prelude for Transgenic Humans' / Adam Zaretsky
'Text, Code and the Arts of Bio-age' / Ioannis Melanitis
-Part II. Critical and Historical Approaches on Bio Art
'Artists in Labs. Pros and a few Cons' / Martin Kemp
'Stranger Connections. On Xenotransfusion and Art' / Robert Zwijnenberg
'Painting and the extension of life: Leonardo's bio pictorial tactics after 1500' / Assimina Kaniari
'Specters of the Animal: The Transgenic Work of Eduardo Kac' / Gunalan Nadarajan
'Hosting the Animal: the Art of Kathy High' / Irina Aristarkhova