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Visceral curator: Making art out of living tissue

By Amanda Gefter

26 January 2011

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Ten years after co-founding the art and science research laboratory SymbioticA, Oron Catts is co-curating Visceral: The Living Art Experiment at the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He tells Amanda Gefter how both the exhibit and his work challenge our perceptions of the meaning of life.

What is the idea behind Visceral?

It is based on the notion of an ongoing experiment. For instance, American artist Paul Vanouse’s installation is a live experiment in which he creates images by running pieces of DNA through a reactive gel…

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