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Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen run a London based experimental practice that produces fictional objects, photographs, performances and videos exploring the tensions between biology and technology.
Inspired by designer species, composed wilderness and mechanical organs, they set out to create posthuman bodies, bespoke metabolisms, unnatural animals and poetic machines.
In a new installation, And Nowhere A Shadow, London-based studio Cohen Van Balen has created a wild environment which wolves enter at night to scratch their bodies on steel branches.
photo cohenvanbalen.com
The installation forms part of Future Perfect which is part of the Close, Closer series of contemporary art programmes/exhibitions at this year’s Lisbon Architecture Triennale. The project organisers recruited a team of scientists, technologists, designers, artists and science fiction authors to create a fictional future city that included its look, surrounding landscapes and the activities that occur within it.
photo cohenvanbalen.com
The movement of the wolves generates electricity while the lit-up metal branches massage the wolves and encourage them to eat genetically-modified blueberries containing rabies vaccine that keep them healthy. Grey wolves approach the structures during the night to scratch their body on the steel branches. In an intricate arrangement of devised symbiosis, the contraption takes on the role of host organism. The wolf’s movements generate electricity for the system. Infrared surveillance cameras capture the wolf’s presence, adorned in invisible garlands of electric display, to transmit around the globe for the enjoyment by those whose passion for the spectacle of wilderness sustain its survival.
photo cohenvanbalen.com
“We wondered whether conservation was in fact a form of entertainment, since its motives are still largely anthropocentric. Therefore, maybe a form of performance could become a viable survival strategy for endangered animals,” Cohen said.
photo cohenvanbalen.com
photo cohenvanbalen.com
Nowhere A Shadow – excerpt from COHEN VAN BALEN on Vimeo.
via cohenvanbalen.com and designindaba.com
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