The Tissue Culture and Art Project is a project that explores the use of technology in artistic expression, Specifically, tissue technologies. This project investigates the concept of the Semi-Living. Parts of complex organisms that are sustained to live outside the body. These artistic experiments question the perceptions we have of life and identity. By doing this, they are able to highlight the positions we have on the relationship between humans and other living beings and the environment. They interrogate the ethics that surround issues of partial life and the future of them.
Victimless Leather is a work that explores these issues. In particular, the relationship between animals and humans. Humans cover their bodies in an attempt to protect themselves from the environment. This is a social and complex issue that deals with social class and identity. Victimless Leather is grown out of cell lines which form a living layer of tissue. This tissue creates a leather like material. This project confronts people with the moral implications of wearing garments made from dead animals. Victimless Leather offers the possibility of wearing 'leather' that does not come from an animal.
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