I had recently visited an art exhibit at CNSI featuring
Kathy High and Waste Matters: You are my future. High is an American artist
working with technology, science and art. She greatly focuses on the biological
sciences and the politics and ethics regarding this broad field.
This exhibit focuses on the human body and a biological
system. Despite the fact that we, the human is in control of the body, there
still exists an uncountable amount of other living organisms that are involved.
They are a variety of life such as bacteria and yeast that live within our
system in different parts of our body including the respiratory system,
digestive system and the integumentary system. Within all of these systems, the
other organisms find a way to live and to balance with our life. In fact many
of these biological organisms are required for our life and therefore live
cooperatively with their human hosts.
At an even closer look, High explores the process of fecal
transplantation. This process is the movement of healthy colon bacteria from a
donor to a person suffering from a compromised gastrointestinal tract. As an
individual suffering from Crohn’s disease, High is extremely driven to explore
this type of process that involves a human system. Through her art, she hopes
to explore, explain and extrapolate this idea of an internal system coming out
of balance and how certain processes such as fecal transplantation can be a
first step in re-mediating the imbalance.
For High, the art in this exhibit stems directly from her
experience with this disease. She hopes this type of expression will encourage
cooperation between different parts of society to potentially work towards a
solution for Crohn’s disease.
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