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The ‘Being Human’ collection includes projects addressing the shifting boundaries between humans and nonhumans through organic and technological permeabilities and symbioses. The works involve the exploration of expanded sensorium through haptics, sex, and food, eventually discussing the parameters of care and caring for oneself and others.
Expertise in this area is led by Prof Kaisu Koski and Noémie Soula.
Citizen Surgery
This body of work explores various aspects of surgical culture, and the relationship between (non)human animal bodies and food.
HUG
The speculative garment HUG explores the capacity of technology to respond to human tactile deprivation during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating the sensation of a hug without the presence of another person.
Raw/ à vif or the unnatural desire to design a human
A critical project at the crossroad between transhumanism, biology, and art.
Mythical Living Data
An inquiry into the future of DNA as data storage
This project questions and speculates on the impacts of the environment’s pollutants on our body. It uses storytelling and visuals to engage the audience into current environmental problematics and future bioethical debates.
Kuang-Yi Ku PhD project
Queering Anatomy – Microbial Migration and Ambiguous Body Borders
This PhD study challenges medical patriarchy and heteronormativity of current anatomical education, by expanding the training to include speculative queer anatomies.
Becoming Futakuchi-Onna
An on-going artistic research project undertaken by Noemie Soula during a residency in Japan over summer 2023 at ARCUS.
Human simulation
The research ‘Human Simulation’ investigates how the human body, a person and various health concerns are being simulated in medical education by using ‘standardized patients’.
Marika Grasso PhD project
Touchscreen matter: exploring tactile relationships through Material Art Practice
The research regards the tactile human relationship with touchscreens. The practice focuses on an explorative material based approach where Touch is the interactive tool to explore technological materiality and the self.