Residency: Pei-Ying Lin
The Taiwanese artist Lin Pei-Ying will work during his residence at LABoral in Kaleidoscope of the Universes, a new reinterpretation of the mandalas
Image of the project Kaleidoscope of the universes - Project Modern Mandala. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Kaleidoscope of the Universes tries to re-think for the new form of meditation through the format of a modern mandala. In Buddhism and Hinduism Mandala is a ritual of meditation where the monks draw the complex imagery of the universe as they understand it using colourful sand with high precision.
Kaleidoscope of the Universes is a to two years investigation project which starts cultivating the microorganisms on an agar mould - bacteria, fungi, and slime. The microorganisms represent the world we once thought non-existed but now prevalent in our time and they interact with each other through hunting, competition, and symbiosis - almost as brutal as the world we see through naked eyes. The microorganisms will be printed with highly symmetrical structure and incubated to create a truly living small universe on a Petri Dish.
The goal of this residency is to produce a microorganism printer connected with a brainwave device that influences the images while printing to complete the meditation cycle - where our mind affects the universe being created by the bacterium.
The whole project will become a continuous performance, which by each small printed universe taking the life of its own, helps the performer to re-exam the complex system of the biological world and the world we live in.
Pei-Ying Lin will develop this residence at LABoral in the framework of the agreement between the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMOFA) for the development of a programme of residencies for Taiwanese digital artist.
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Dr. Chun-Yao Chen, Environmental Microbiology Laboratory. Tzu-Chi University, Taiwan
