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Life Time: Bio-art comes of age at a gem of a show

From sound pollution in the North Sea to the destruction of the North Dakotan landscape by big engineering, a Dutch art show gives us a glimpse at time

15 January 2018

man in salt — Wild Vlees’s An Incomplete Life: an actor is slowly shrouded in salt
Life Time: Biological Clocks of the Universe, MU, Eindhoven, 2017. Photo: Hanneke Wetzer

, MU Artspace, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, until 18 February

MAKING art out of biological material, living tissue or even recordings of whole ecosystems is no longer a new idea. In fact it is one that is fast approaching its majority: , the pioneering art and science research laboratory that did so much to establish the field, was opened in 2001.

Life Time, a small show running at MU Artspace…

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