Sex • Food • Death is a panel discussion organized by 319 Scholes and Artists Meeting, a New York City based collective. The Panel will explore a range of creative tendencies that presage the coming integration of biology, science, art, research, and post-human critique. A multidisciplinary team of panelists from the L’Institut d’Arts Invasifs, working in conjunction with researchers from University of Life Sciences and the Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, will discuss their controversial research on Biostallations, an eme... Read more

Sex • Food • Death is a panel discussion organized by 319 Scholes and Artists Meeting, a New York City based collective. The Panel will explore a range of creative tendencies that presage the coming integration of biology, science, art, research, and post-human critique.

A multidisciplinary team of panelists from the L’Institut d’Arts Invasifs, working in conjunction with researchers from University of Life Sciences and the Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, will discuss their controversial research on Biostallations, an emerging creative practice situated in active theaters of war. This work has been quietly generating controversy among European bio-ethicists and religious leaders, due to its use of human subjects, genetic interventions, drone technology, and bizarre academic ritual celebrations. While the group of artists undertaking this work chooses to remain underground, their institutional research partners have agreed to speak out for the first time, amid accusations of European-wide censorship and a media blackout.

Sex • Food • Death will illuminate new and potentially groundbreaking creative practices, while proposing techniques for collapsing the boundaries between contemporary interpretations of the bio-genetic interference of bio-art and art, art and nature, nature and bio-art. These multiparous fields of generative practice existing within both microscopic and socio-cultural domains will soon have a disrupting effect on cultural production as we have come to understand it.

“Simultaneously, the so-called ethical constraints of Western Civilization collapse around the reality of the flexible genome. The tools of war unleashed by the scientific community are affording us with a tremendous opportunity to map the exigent patterns of the bio-chemical experience of fear, and to develop protocols, heuristics, and experimental trials, which heighten, modify and rework an individual’s experience of fear.”