Tissue Culture & Art Project

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An artistic research and laboratory project established by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr to explore tissue cultures and tissue engineering.
Tags: Biology, Technology, Science, Tissue engineering
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Pig Wings
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Developed as part of the artists’ residency at the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA. Developed further in SymbioticA, UWA. The work involved using tissue engineering and stem cell technologies to grow pig bone tissue in the shape of three different sets of wings.

 
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The Semi-Living Worry Dolls
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Medium
degradable polymer, tissue culture
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Organic, Tissue, Cells

7 'doll’ sculptures crafted from degradable polymers and surgical sutures. Sterilised and seeded with different kind of cells (skin, muscle and bone tissue), which cause the polymer to degrade as they grow (therefore the dolls constantly evolve). Tissue, Culture & Art Project in collaboration with SymbioticA and the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA.

Note: in collaboration with SymbioticA and The Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
 

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