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"I came from the Soviet Union in what is today Ukraine. I enjoyed drawing when I was an infant; and I received several awards. In high school, I decided to pursue a degree in economics but did not feel content with the idea of having a career that was full-time the desk of a dull dirty office. Then I decided to pursue at art with a serious approach, which eventually brought me to the classes of Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to study under Shirin Neshat in Salzburg."
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"Making art for me is an important procedure of creating unbelievable, imagined worlds.
The alien-like appearance, the unnatural feelings and shapes - that is the kind of things I like to visualize and think about. Naturally, during my younger years, as with everyone, I started with my surroundings, but very soon felt unsatisfied by the way I interpreted the most well-known facts about visuals.
The desire to make every possible variation and artefact that are not known to me inspired me to design completely unique universes."
How would you describe the style you use in your work?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Biofuturism or Bioism is an attempt to create life-like living things and modern aesthetic for future biological life. Bioism is an approach to develop art objects which express visual possibilities of synthetic biology. Bioism is an effort to make art using energy, variety and complexity. I view each of my artworks as an actual living thing. Bioism extends life to lifeless objects.
Personally, I am convinced that in the coming years, in the wake of a biological revolution, we'll be using living furniture, dwell in live-in homes, and travel in space using live stations. However, the most interesting thing will be the ability of artists to work with living things, creating new forms of life. The artistic act will acquire the sensation of birth. It could be a reaction of the artwork to the maker and the environment. Art museums of the future could turn into zoological gardens galleries that could become new biodiversity funds, and art galleries into bio-labs.
Bioism seeks to promote different and inexhaustible types of life across the entire universe. Paradise engineering is the epitomization of bioethics in new ways...
This manifesto, I believe, will never be complete, because I am myself a biological process, which is currently working on the issue."
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What are the most important factors to making your installations?
"I am trying to avoid all primitive geometric structures: none of the straight lines or no lines at all, in the event that it is feasible. I'm chasing the intersection between micro and macro on a regular routine.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complicated is instantly recognized by our inner eye as organic or somehow alive. Biology is the deepest and most intricate information structure of our planet."
Church is a formal place. Do you find it difficult to work the area?
"It is based on your own inner expectations, hidden burdens, or how uncertain you are about your connection to the world of humankind. For me, I'm almost zero knowledge of time, space and its wonders. So when I go to an institution, I feel like a child with a curiosity in the vast and mysterious playground with has some sort or communication capability.
It is my goal to show respect toward it as an artist however, I don't overlook its fun side and the aspect of conversing with a god. It's similar to an XXL telephone booth. While talking or trying to understand you could also laugh."
What is your level of charge of the creation process and what percentage of it is bioism?
"Controlling chaos is a challenging undertaking. My inner ear and eyes will be listening to the possibility of a new tune, to find unknown shapes, that speak to me, and stimulates the imagination of my. However, it's not a an all-in-one process, where you are an mining machine, taking lucky gems of fascinations and throwing a plethora of uninteresting possibilities in your face. For me, it's not a good idea.
I often combine my fascinations along with other possibilities minor for a not-so-pleasant music, but a surprising and unexpected results too. The best part of this work is to compose new world as you are already imagining what it ought to look. Sometime you are in a dream; sometimes it comes at night, while you sleep. However, the fact is that - the more I create and create, the greater pleasures I experience, and chaos is my partner in growing bioism."
Do you have fun creating, or do you gain something more from it, like meditation or communication with your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. In addition, I draw while discovering myself - what I can do to amaze myself, and also how much the universe can be able to surprise me. This involves all possible activities on this strange pathway. Sometimes, it's funny for sure, but sometimes, if I'm feeling more exhilarated, I venture to the outside world and perform an appearance."
How did you get towards bioism? How did you get started? you made the switch?
"The first steps were rather normal: I remember how happy I was about my half-drawing-half-painting of the tractor in the field for which I was praised in kindergarten.
Then I fell in love with landscape drawing, where I would sit on the grass for hours at a time, trying to draw motions of nature on the board. After that I even made some portraits, but I was so dissatisfied, frustrated by the flatness of human faces that were reproduced (including photos and video) and I halted. The moment I stopped, the shell of my egg fell off and I was revealed like the phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I came closer to the secret of life. What is that? The idea isn't to define the existing one however, it is to write the new one. That was the birth day of my bioethics and bioism."
While browsing your IG I had a thought that bioism might be interested in the issue of homelessness and homelessness in LA...
"But it was not a good tale that it was freezing on the streets , and the residents were content to be touched by any touch from a human, to hear the Christmas art-story of the new-born bioism, and play with the little blue child of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the beach of the Hollywood might cause by me an entirely different perspective in my mind. I need to consider the philosophical aspects of bioism meeting with hypothetical Diogenes in Venice."
For more information about Aljoscha's collection of works and to go deeper into bioism, visit the artist's Instagram and the current installation at the cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.
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