SymbioticA - Kirsten Hudson

Kirsten HudsonAustralia
2006 – 2007
www.tangentfm.com <http://www.tangentfm.com/>

Hudson is interested in issues surrounding the aesthetical, ethical, political and legal status of bodies and bodily matter as well as conflicts of interest and inconsistencies surrounding current bio-art practices and body image-based medical/fashion interventions and modifications. She engages with the repulsion and seduction - as well as the legal and ethical implications - of using the human body (or parts thereof) for artistic research purposes.

Mini Flesh Works is a project that seeks to create a series of in-vitro, living textile prototypes using cells biopsied from her body and breastmilk, and from her infant’s umbilical cord blood, umbilical cord as well as collagen taken from the placental tissue. It is the second stage of development in a project called DESIGNER SKINS – the ultimate fashion statement.