Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The paper investigates the societal and critical potential of bio(medical) artistic practices by focusing on the ways in which female artists use bodies and living cells as means of biopolitical critique. Using an ecofeminist and posthuman feminist theoretical framework, the author discusses selected bio(medical) works by female contemporary artists that contain living human cells or in which they connect with other species. The paper shows how these works are critical towards many socio-historical and biopolitical issues, such as discrimination associated with blood and blood lineages, the killing of indigenous communities, ecocide, biobanks, racial and gender-based superiority and dominance, human authority over other-than human and more-than-human beings. Such artistic practices are of great relevance for gender studies and studies of artistic research in bioculture and technoscience, where their interdisciplinary nature changes the representation and understanding of bodies in the arts and everyday culture.
Source: Acta historiae artis Slovenica
DOI: 10.3986/ahas.30.1.07
Author: Sonja Jankov
Institution: University of Arts in Belgrade
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414494145
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