WE LIKE IT, but is it science?
Self-styled bio-artist Adam Zaretsky pushed back aesthetic boundaries last
week by spending eight days in the Workhorse Zoo, a tiny glass-walled room at
the Salina Art Center, Kansas.
For company, he had live specimens of the “workhorse” laboratory animals
used in molecular biology: bacteria, yeast, flies, worms, fish, frogs, mice and plants.
“I’m trying to skew the relationship between nature and culture,” Zaretsky
said. “Not for hundreds of generations have these lab animals lived together in
an environment in which they can interact.”
Watched by the general public through the glass and filmed…
