V projektu ‘Et In Arcadia Ego’ umetnica materializira soočenje z lastnim telesom – z njegovo krvavo, biološko končnostjo. V srečanju z rakastim tkivom, ki se je razvil na celicah iz njenega telesa, bolezen predstavi kot del svojega osebnega prostora. Rakasto obolenje se običajno opisuje kot nevidno zlo, proti kateremu se je potrebno ‘boriti’, vendar umetnico zanima videti raka ‘v živo’, obelodaniti in izkustveno predstaviti nekaj, o čimer se običajno govori v metaforah ter pri tem raziskati (ovrednotiti?) funkcijo teh metafor, ko so naenkrat soočene z dejanskim materialom.
Obstaja dolga tradicija umetnikov, ki so se ukvarjali s skatološkim na različne načine. Številne umetnine prikazujejo splošno človeško fascinacijo nad mehanizmi, s katerimi je naše telo sposobno ustvarjati material, ki nas odbija in plaši. Da bi se avtorica izognila fetišiziranju in romantični interpretaciji bolezni, je rakasto tkivo vzgojila na črevesnih celicah, ki jih je težko videti in zato govoriti o njih.
V nasprotju od biotehnološkega optimizma, ki prihodnost človeštva polaga v doseg tkivnega inženiringa in sintetične biologije (s čimer se je avtorica ukvarjala v projektu ‘Ergo Sum’), je v pričujočem delu umetnica uporabila enake tehnologije za ustvarjanje območja smrtnosti. Ob teh dveh projektih lahko ugotavljamo, da vprašanje življenja in smrti ni več stvar naravnosti temveč tehnološka realnost, ki ji čustveno še nismo dorasli.
Artist Charlotte Jarvis has grown colon tumour from her own cells in the lab, which she exhibited in installation. The project aims to examine mortality and create a dialogue with and about cancer.
Two chambers were built for the project connected by a dark corridor. The first was a waiting room documenting the process of making the project, the second was a dark space filled with earth and containing the tumour housed in a mirrored box. These spaces were 'sets' in which the artist literally waited to meet and eventually confronted her tumour.
The project is about materialising a confrontation with one’s own body; with its bloody, biological mortality. It is also about recognising cancer as much part of ourselves as tooth or eye; meeting her, welcoming her into artist’s personal space and confronting her. Cancer is often described as something we must “fight”; an unseen force to be battled with somewhere on the field of our own bodies. The artist is interested in actually seeing cancer 'in the flesh' - in making tangible something that is usually discussed in metaphors and in doing this exploring (evaluating?) the function of these metaphors when faced with the actual material.
Part of the process of making the project involves purposefully ‘violating’ a part of her body (although it will be external to me at this stage) to make it cancerous. The author wanted to grow colon cancer, because it is completely devoid of romance - mundane, and something that would be difficult to confront and talk about; also something harder to imagine; something internal and ‘hidden’. There is a long tradition of artists engaging with the scatological. These pieces demonstrate a general human fascination with the mechanisms by which we are capable of making a material in our own bodies that repulses us. There is the obvious link here to cancer as something that comes naturally from our bodies but that we are offended by.
Charlotte Jarvis is interested in using the project to explore how stem cell technology will necessitate a change in our perceptions of ourselves and our bodies in the future. In preceded stem cell art work, called ‘Ergo Sum’, she used stem cell technology to create a kind of ‘back-up’ self with beating heart cells, firing neurones and flowing blood vessels. It explored the possibilities of personalised medicine and how we might extend our lives. ‘Et In Arcadia Ego’ is an equal and opposite answer to this, using similar technology to explore the mechanisms of mortality.
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