Undertaking its maiden voyage across the Baltic for ISEA 2004, the LifeBoat project was a collaborative trans-disciplinary work.
It combined the individual interests and specialisations of:
- Nigel Helyer (Sonic Objects)
- Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (The Tissue Culture and Art Project)
- Stuart Hodgetts (School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA)
- Sarah Pell (ARTi).
LifeBoat is a prosaic title indicating both the physical reality (the project was contained within a fully weatherproofed ship's lifeboat) and somewhat more conceptually, as the lifeboat became home to a biotechnology laboratory; a home to the processes of life itself.
On a metaphorical level, this project was designed to deal with concepts of sustainability, survival and notions of biological, cultural and ideological re-generation, and naturally its obverse, the degradation of life and all its manifestations.
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