Living sculpture (2019)
The work displays a fungus living in a 90 liter bioreactor. In the bioreactor the fungus is kept alive by an artificial life support system that supplies it with the water, sugar, and oxygen that are its basic needs. The fungus adapts to this system and transforms its body into round pellets that are submerged into the liquid. The bodily presence of the fungus in the bioreactor offers humans the chance to observe and to reflect about so-called “natural” and artificial habitats.
Project Credits:
- Janis Liepins (Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia)
- Diana Meiere
- Inita Daniele (Latvian Museum of Natural History)
- Dr. silv. Tālis Gaitnieks
- Dr. biol. Natālija Burņeviča (Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava”)
- Latvian Mycology Society.
Biography:
Jan Georg Glöckner (DE) studied visual communication, fine art, and media art at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Estonian Art Academy Tallinn, and Bauhaus-University, Weimar. Interchanging media and perspectives is a vital exercise in his practice and the underlying principle to keep up the static curiosity which drives his research. Currently he focuses on artificial life support systems.
