Paper short abstract

The paper takes as its point of departure erasure of the anatomical form from the cohabiting domains of the artistic and bioscientific. Drawing on feminist technoscience, spearheaded by Donna Haraway, the paper explores the artistic and tropic representations of biogenetic substance such as DNA and embryos. The paper argues that aesthetic and epistemic expressions are as much about visible disappearances and erasures as they are about (re)creation and expression. The paper describes ‘aesthetics of erasure’ as ‘multivariate’ and explores a constellation of conceptual interpolations ranging from life and death, movement and stasis, space and temporality, form and content.

Paper long abstract

The paper takes as its point of departure erasure of the anatomical form from the cohabiting domains of the artistic and bioscientific. Drawing on feminist technoscience, spearheaded by Donna Haraway, the paper explores the artistic and tropic representations of biogenetic substance such as DNA and embryos. The paper argues that aesthetic and epistemic expressions are as much about visible disappearances and erasures as they are about (re)creation and expression. The paper describes 'aesthetics of erasure' as 'multivariate' and explores a constellation of conceptual interpolations ranging from life and death, movement and stasis, space and temporality, form and content.