Date/Time
Date(s) - 23/10/2015
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
Angewandte Innovation Lab
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Victoria Vesna, Resident Artist at the Angewandte 2015, realised her Hox Zodiac Project together with neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan for the first time in Incheon/Korea 2009, afterwards in Hong Kong/China (2012), Taipei/Taiwan (2013), Los Angeles/US (2014), New York (2015).
Hox genes define the body regions in all animals. They are responsible for the determination of the human arms, legs, noses etc. They are also responsible for all limb variations in the animal kingdom. Each species has an anterior-posterior axis as common strand which connects the body forms and enables a variety of morphological differences and newnesses.
Through improvement of genetic engineering, gene manipulation in mutated organisms became real already. Hox gene transformations which could lead to alterations in body compositions and to hybrid forms are conceivable at least.
Victoria Vesna wants to tempt her guests in order to create an experimental space together where we are coupled amoung each other and share our genes. Sie invites the audience to develop ideas, to devise new creatures and to cost hox zodiac related dishes.
In Vienna, Vesna refined the Hox Zodiac Project by involving two Graphic Design students for media improvement. She hopes that Vienna is the place for the dinner to celebrate east and west hybridisations which constantly unfold as well as the displacement of the human anthropocentric point of view.