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Experiments in Biological Planet Formation and Plants: Nourishing Bodies, Nourishing Planets

Brickman, Jacklyn E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595340630648528

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2020, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
This document joins two inverse, yet complementary bodies of text which reflect the interdisciplinary nature of a creative practice that amalgamates the methodologies of art, science, and domesticity. ACSE (Allium Cepa Stella Erratica, or onion planet) was a speculative laboratory constructed and operated in an art gallery as a strategy for testing an artistic hypothesis. Designed to enable experiments for new planet development through onion propagation, ACSE incorporated bio-art, durational performance, installation, and social engagement. The first text, Experiments in Biological Planet Formation is a research article for an unspecified scientific journal that outlines the objectives, functions, and public experience of the ACSE laboratory, including a detailed materials and methodologies section for successful reproduction of experiments and future plans for primus protoplanet space propulsion. The second text, Plants: Nourishing Bodies, Nourishing Planets, reveals the speculative nature of the laboratory and its purpose from the perspective of an artist statement. It is a personal narrative that weaves storytelling, historical references, and future projections about the possibility of nurturing an onion planet for human colonization into a predictive reality to generate dialogue about the collective social and environmental experience of the now. ACSE utilizes labor as both a performance and a process for understanding and creation. It is a place in which being lost in practice is a productive form of world-building. Through the enaction of care and tenderness in a laboratory/ art gallery setting, a productive interspecies collaboration is yielded to the benefit of both technician and specimen. The durational performances of experiments conflate common perceptions of laboratory, kitchen, and art studio. Thus, the experimental methods employed blur lines between cooking, dissection, and object making, not to challenge the value or efficacy of science, art, or domesticity, only to broaden their perceived possibilities. ACSE demonstrates how speculative fiction in real time and space works to engage audiences in difficult political realities.
Amy Youngs (Advisor)
Ann Hamilton (Committee Member)
Michael Mercil (Committee Member)
118 p.
Astronomy; Biology; Experiments; Fine Arts
allium cepa; art; astronomy; bio-art; biology; climate change; collaboration; domesticity; eco art; Installation; Interspecies; nurture; onion; performance; planet b; plants; protoplanet; science; space colonization;

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  • Brickman, J. E. (2020). Experiments in Biological Planet Formation and Plants: Nourishing Bodies, Nourishing Planets [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595340630648528

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brickman, Jacklyn. Experiments in Biological Planet Formation and Plants: Nourishing Bodies, Nourishing Planets . 2020. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595340630648528.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brickman, Jacklyn. "Experiments in Biological Planet Formation and Plants: Nourishing Bodies, Nourishing Planets ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595340630648528

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