The artists explore the possibility of human interaction and connection with other forms of existence. What would happen if we developed a new body through interaction with emerging technologies, materials, and bacteria? Will we become eternal, and will we remain the same humans? We are concerned with the question of what will happen to the emotions of this new being—the post-human, the cyborg. Will we be able to reject the need to reproduce ourselves?
The characters in the video are equipped with special implants and an additional organ system that allows them to survive in a world affected by numerous environmental disasters. Severe CO2 emissions into the atmosphere have led to global warming, and viruses have destroyed the typical biological body, forcing it to adapt to current conditions. The body of this new human—a post-human—has learned to reproduce critical organ systems and has also become something like a farm for growing cells and cellular organoids to create replacement organs.
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan and Katherina Sadovsky – Artists
Sofia Kuznetsova – Manager
Margarita Raeva – CGI
Sasha Donkan – DOP
El Pelele, Constant® (Nelly Khorsun (Quist), Antanas Jacinevicius) – Sound
Vladimir Mogilevskiy – Tracking, compositing, rendering
Margarita Raeva, Tatiana Vlasenko, Abdoulaye Bah – Cast
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan (1971) and Katherina Sadovsky (1985) are a duo of Russian artists who have been working together since 2016, now based in Yerevan, Armenia. Their diverse approach to art practice encompasses art media such as video, CGI, 3D, sculpture, photography, AI, installation, sound, sitespecific practices.
In their projects, Li-Mi-Yan and Sadovsky explore questions of the future, ecology, the relationship between humans and Nature, the possibilities of human interaction and connection with other forms of existence.
What happens if we, as a species, have a new body created in interaction with new technologies, materials, bacteria? Will we be eternal, and will we remain the same people? What will happen to the emotions of the new human, posthuman, cyborg…? Will we be able to refuse to reproduce ourselves?
Given the rise of medicine and biotechnology, our emotional development is frozen in the capsule of our ancestors.
Artists critically analyze these issues, inconveniently intruding into nature with digital images on polymer materials, comparing this art gesture with the attitude of humanity towards non-human agents and the biosphere in general.
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The artists explore the possibility of human interaction and connection with other forms of existence. What would happen if we developed a new body through interaction with emerging technologies, materials, and bacteria? Will we become eternal, and will we remain the same humans? We are concerned with the question of what will happen to the emotions of this new being—the post-human, the cyborg. Will we be able to reject the need to reproduce ourselves?
The characters in the video are equipped with special implants and an additional organ system that allows them to survive in a world affected by numerous environmental disasters. Severe CO2 emissions into the atmosphere have led to global warming, and viruses have destroyed the typical biological body, forcing it to adapt to current conditions. The body of this new human—a post-human—has learned to reproduce critical organ systems and has also become something like a farm for growing cells and cellular organoids to create replacement organs.
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan and Katherina Sadovsky – Artists
Sofia Kuznetsova – Manager
Margarita Raeva – CGI
Sasha Donkan – DOP
El Pelele, Constant® (Nelly Khorsun (Quist), Antanas Jacinevicius) – Sound
Vladimir Mogilevskiy – Tracking, compositing, rendering
Margarita Raeva, Tatiana Vlasenko, Abdoulaye Bah – Cast
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan (1971) and Katherina Sadovsky (1985) are a duo of Russian artists who have been working together since 2016, now based in Yerevan, Armenia. Their diverse approach to art practice encompasses art media such as video, CGI, 3D, sculpture, photography, AI, installation, sound, sitespecific practices.
In their projects, Li-Mi-Yan and Sadovsky explore questions of the future, ecology, the relationship between humans and Nature, the possibilities of human interaction and connection with other forms of existence.
What happens if we, as a species, have a new body created in interaction with new technologies, materials, bacteria? Will we be eternal, and will we remain the same people? What will happen to the emotions of the new human, posthuman, cyborg…? Will we be able to refuse to reproduce ourselves?
Given the rise of medicine and biotechnology, our emotional development is frozen in the capsule of our ancestors.
Artists critically analyze these issues, inconveniently intruding into nature with digital images on polymer materials, comparing this art gesture with the attitude of humanity towards non-human agents and the biosphere in general.
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www.instagram.com/sadovskykat
