IASPIS Dnr KN 2016/8165 Timo Menke Användning av resebidraget och genomförande av arbetet Syftet med arbetsvistelsen på Coalesce Center for Biological Arts[1] som är en del av GEM[2] på University of Buffalo (NY, USA) var att utveckla ett avancerat konstnärligt projekt med bas i en genetisk människa-växt-donation. Coalesce erbjuder en exklusiv miljö för att arbeta konstnärligt med
AuthorTimo Menke
The Double Nature of Culture (Work in Progress)
Horizontal transfer In my practice photographic and moving images have operated as a medium connected to issues of (self)representation and observation, investigating (in)visible power relations in narrative formats. Throughout several projects the symbolic, bio-political, social, economic and cultural aspects of donation have been at the core of my interest. The interdisciplinary relation between art and
Master Class and presentation at PLASMA, University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Master Class and presentation of ongoing project at Coalesce BioArt Lab at Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art (PLASMA) at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, NY, USA. See the complete list of Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art
Siberian Trance
“Siberian Trance” (2015, 11:47 min) has been produced as a draft for a larger exploration of material gathered during the Trans-Siberian Artist Residency Moscow-Vladivostok 22 – 28 September 2015.
Proposal for Coalesce BioArt Lab Residency Project
The double nature of culture: Radical human-plant donation Project description (500 words) [nslider sid=201] According to a study in 2015 from Clear Labs[1], 2% of all tested hot dogs contained human DNA; probably from saliva, body fluids or traces of skin in the food processing chain, but reported with a juicy undertone of cannibalism. Another
Proposal for “Motel Trogir – The East is west of the West” receives a special mention
The open call launched by Slobodne veze/Loose associations, in collaboration with BJCEM, “The East is west of the West” is now closed. The members of the jury (Nataša Bodrožić, Lidija Butković Mićin, Ivana Meštrov and Saša Šimpraga) have selected five artists for the upcoming short term residency in Trogir and Split, in September 2016 A
Proposal for “Motel Trogir: The East is west of the West”
Motel Trogir (2006/2016, 12:20 min) Research documentation for proposal ‘East is Western from the West’ Produced on location 2006, edited 2016 (Password: Trogir2016) This proposal is based on German Indians in the Balkans, an unfinished film project initiated by me in 2006, dealing with a historical investigation of the extremely popular German -Yugoslavian Western movies
Gifted Men: Dealing with Anonymous Sperm Donation
Documentation from Timo Menke’s and Nils Agdler’s presentation at the conference Aesthetics, Ethics and Biopolitics of the Posthuman at Aarhus university in Denmark, 10-11 December 2015.
Trans-Siberian Artist Residency: Anthropological Research
Hey Irishka! Found a minute to write you a letter. My life here is perfect, I don’t even want to leave.* *(an unsigned letter found in the house on the hill) The project takes the theme of the 6th Moscow Biennial, Eurasia, to a new, almost physical level: artists will cross this continent with the
Andrografi – Om män och maskuliniteter
Separatutställning av Nils Agdler och Timo Menke
18 september – 11 oktober 2015
Vernissage med artist talk fredag 18 september kl. 19.00
Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå
Gifted Men Poster Publication
The twin posters produced for the film installation Gifted Men.
deCODE doNATION (in Progress)
Mapping the involuntary donation of human DNA in Iceland A donation is a gift in every sense of the word, often regarded as a selfless good and expected to be voluntary, for free and anonymous, although it may raise various ethical, existential and even economical questions. In the residency research project deCODE doNATION at SIM
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