Life Between Art and Blood

Heidi Pietarinen

About this exposition

Artist-researchers Heidi Pietarinen and Amna Qureshi from the University of Lapland have conducted in-depth work on the innovative BioARTech laboratory environment and utilisation of available resources for a bioart project called Life Between Art and (Reindeer) Blood. The aim and focus of the project were to utilise reindeer blood as a reindeer herding by-material instead of treating it as waste material. Both artist-researchers were curious to see how nature as a living design medium becomes perceptible to humans. In this study, a living design medium refers to material production that incorporates simple living organisms such as reindeer blood, material-driven design and co-designing, with an entity having its own agency. Bioart can be used to develop innovative design and art practice to work with nature (biology) and the non-human, such as live tissues (i.e. materials engineered by nature itself), microbes or living organisms (birds, insects, trees and blood), to bring about new design solutions and life processes. Through the arts-based research (ABR) approach, this ground-breaking research aims to develop activities that integrate environmental biotechnology, bioart, surface pattern design, and science.

type	research exposition
keywords	Bioart, reindeer blood, Arts based research, visual cartography, living design medium
date	10/03/2023
published	09/11/2023
last modified	09/11/2023
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	University of Lapland, Finland
copyright	c
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1944362/1944363
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.1944362
published in	RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue	20. Artivism

name	Figure 1 Dried reindeer blood
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name	Fig 3: Visual Cartographies (Amna Qureshi & Heidi Pietarinen, 2022)
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name	Fig 3: Visual Cartographies (Amna Qureshi & Heidi Pietarinen, 2022)
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name	Fig 3: Visual Cartographies (Amna Qureshi & Heidi Pietarinen, 2022)
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name	Visual
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name	Visual Cartographies
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