During the period 1-15th July 2008, 35 artists from UK, Ireland, China, Australia, Peru, Morocco, USA, Tunisia, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq have taken part in the creation of artworks that will be used as building blocks of an art installation dubbed Zygote.
The artists have been asked to use the building blocks of life- DNA. The DNA code GATC is used to create a personal message.
The Womb is nomadic, communicative (through use of media technologies) iconic sculpture/pavilion that explores the complexity of the ego’s relationships with his/her environment and addresses issues of the relativity of truth and values.
The womb will have 5 segments to be constructed using individual elements to be built by teams of international artists in 5 cities: Liverpool ( UK), Cape Town (S.A), Istanbul ( Turkey), Guadalajara ( Mexico) and London. All elements will be assembled and erected in London during the Olympic Games in 2012
By placing the artistic expressions of our differences in the very core of the womb, the artwork invites the viewer to look at our differences with the freshness of foetus eyes. For the initiated viewer, there’s no more ‘I’ and ‘He/She’, there only one connected complex being that embraces the most contradicting views of the world.
The Womb will be designed by Award winning German architects Tim Edler and Jan Edler from realities:united (realU), a studio for art, architecture and technology.
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Zygote
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
A zygote is the fertilized cell that will grow into a baby animal. When a female's ovum and a male's sperm cell become one, this cell is called the zygote. The zygote then multiplies, and grows into an embryo.
Zygote Installation is created by Sumer Erek as the first phase of an organic art project dubbed the Womb
It’s accepted that human consciousness begins before birth and at that phase, all men are equals, differences occur later after the birth and are product of centuries of differentiations by history, language, culture, tradition and, most important, religion.
We all share this DNA code.
Although we are all different, we all share the basic building blocks of humanity;
Just like this universal language and translingual form, Art is also translingual and transcultural.
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