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"I am a native of the Soviet Union in what is today Ukraine. I enjoyed drawing when I was a child; I even had a few prizes. In high school, I decided to study economics, but wasn't satisfied with the possibility of working full-time at an uninteresting desk in a and dusty workplace. So I decided to try at art with a serious approach, which eventually brought me to the classes that was taught by Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to study under Shirin Neshat, a teacher from Salzburg."
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"Making artwork for me, is a significant method of creating unimaginable and imagined universes.
Aliens-like visuals, mystical images and forms - this is the kind of things I like to think about and imagine. In my younger years, as with everyone, I started with the things which surrounded me and then I began to feel unsatisfied by the way I interpreted known visual information.
The attempt to create any variation that is possible and artefacts of unknown origin motivated me to compose utterly new universes."
What would you say about your style of art?
"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:
Bioism or biofuturism represents my effort to design new living forms and a fresh aesthetic for the future of organic life. Bioism is a way to develop art objects which demonstrate the visual potential of synthetic biological processes. Bioism is a method to create art that is based on the power of life, diversity and. Each work as a living being. Bioism extends life to lifeless objects.
Personally, I believe that in the near future, in the wake of an evolutionary revolution, we'll be using living furniture, reside in living houses, as well as travel through space with living stations. But the most exciting aspect will be the capacity for artists to create living materials, and thus create novel forms of life. The art form will take on the feeling of being born. It could be a reaction of the artwork to the maker and the environment. Art museums of the future may transform into zoological parks galleries that could become new diversity funds, ateliers into biology labs.
Bioism seeks to promote new and endless forms of life throughout the universe. Paradise engineering is an epiphany of new bioethics...
The manifesto I see it, can never be completed, since I myself am a living process still working on it."
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What is the key to making your installations?
"I attempt to steer clear of any primitive geometrics: none of the straight lines or no lines at all, if possible. I am chasing after the intersection between micro and macro on a regular basis.
Any thing that is not understood or extremely complex is immediately noticed by our eyes as being organic, or perhaps alive. Biology is among the deepest and most complicated information structure in the universe."
The church is a formal space. Do you find it difficult to work within such a space?
"It is based on your own inner desires, your hidden burdens or the degree of uncertainty you have in your understanding of your place in the world of humankind. Personally, I've got zero knowledge of space, time and their marvels. When I am in an institution, I feel like a child with a curiosity in an enormous and bizarre playground with has some sort of communication function.
I try to be respectful towards its artistry, but I do not forget about its entertainment side, the part about conversing with a god. It is a bit like an XXL phone booth. While talking or trying to hear you can also laugh."
What is your level of charge of the creation process and how much of the process is all biomimetic?
"Controlling chaos can be a difficult endeavor. My eyes and ear are all about to receive the possible unknown tune and to discover a new form, that speaks to me, and stimulates the imagination of my. It's not just a an all-in-one process, where you are mining machines: collecting lucky gemstones and throwing hell of waste of not interesting possibilities to your back. Not for me.
My fascinations are often combined with other minor possibilities to achieve not only pleasant music, but a deviative revelation also. The best part of the work is creating a new universe when you know what it ought to look. Sometimes you have a daydream or even during the night when you are sleeping. The fact remains that the more I design and create, the greater pleasures I experience, and chaos can be my companion in the growth of bioism."
Do you enjoy creating or are you able to find something other than enjoyment from it? Like meditation or communication with your more vulnerable side?
"Drawing time is contemplation time. Also, I create as I discover myself and see the extent to which I might surprise my own self and how else my universe could surprise me - which involves any and all possibilities in this enigmatic path. Sometimes it gets funny, indeed, and sometimes if I'm feeling more exhilarated, I venture out in the world to create an appearance."
How did you get to bioism? What did you try before it?
"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.
In the following years, I was infatuated with landscape drawing, which meant I could lie in the grass for hours at a time, trying to draw natural movements onto the paper. In the end, I created portraits. But I was dissatisfied and so bored with the dullness of any human figure that was reproduced (including on photographs and videos) which is why I stopped. The moment I stopped, the egg's shell fell off and I was revealed as a phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I was brought nearer to the truth of existence. What exactly is it? The idea isn't to define the current one, but to compose a new one. It was the first day of bioethics and my bioism."
When I was going through your IG I had a thought Bioism may be interested in homeless issues in LA...
"But there was an opposite narrative 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 to play with little blue child of it.
The grim poverty that is evident on the beach of the Hollywood may trigger to take a completely different route - I have to imagine the philosophical implications of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes of Venice."
To see more of Aljoscha's collection of works and to go deeper into bioism, visit the artist's Instagram and his current installation at the cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.