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「 Alive 」
# Bio art design & Installation & Multi media immersive
In Collaboration With Yijun Chen
Year : 2021
「 Alive 」
# Bio art design & Installation & Multi media immersive
In Collaboration With Yijun Chen
Year : 2021
“「 Alive 」” is a multi-media bio-art project that reflects the resilience of human life and the drive and hope to survive through the personal experience of a congenital heart disease patient who seeks medical treatment and self-help. The protagonist, who grew up in a poor area, travels to the countryside, big cities and medically advanced areas in order to survive, and eventually joins a similar cause to contribute to the cure for this disease.
A lingering but still beating heart is placed in the centre as the main object, and its surface is covered with numerous patches, signifying the desire to live and be alive, even after all the setbacks and treatments it has suffered. Plasters made from different materials form the 'patches' that are sewn hard to the heart, creating larger scars in order to heal them.
The addition of moving images reconstructs the whole story through artistic means while revealing the helplessness and heartache involved, with the blood vessels in the heart acting as a medium to link the relationships between them. This frail organ continues to tell its own story of what has happened to it and what the future may hold for it.
The project is also a collaboration with biologist Dr. Alexander Seifalian from UCL , who is attempting to bring science to human medicine by means of growing its own cells in order to grow its own organ tissue to replace parts of a dead organ. The project is also working closely on the cultivation of human stem cells and reproductive organ cells based on a carbon micro-molecular architecture, which is expected to be of real benefit to mankind in the near future.
A lingering but still beating heart is placed in the centre as the main object, and its surface is covered with numerous patches, signifying the desire to live and be alive, even after all the setbacks and treatments it has suffered. Plasters made from different materials form the 'patches' that are sewn hard to the heart, creating larger scars in order to heal them.
The addition of moving images reconstructs the whole story through artistic means while revealing the helplessness and heartache involved, with the blood vessels in the heart acting as a medium to link the relationships between them. This frail organ continues to tell its own story of what has happened to it and what the future may hold for it.
The project is also a collaboration with biologist Dr. Alexander Seifalian from UCL , who is attempting to bring science to human medicine by means of growing its own cells in order to grow its own organ tissue to replace parts of a dead organ. The project is also working closely on the cultivation of human stem cells and reproductive organ cells based on a carbon micro-molecular architecture, which is expected to be of real benefit to mankind in the near future.
“「 Alive 」”是一个多媒介融合的生物艺术项目，透过一位先天性心脏病患者的个人就医以及自救的经历，反映出人类顽强生生不息的生命与渴望存活的动力与希望。主人公从小生活在贫困地区，为了生存辗转反侧来到乡村，大城市，医疗先进地区，最终投身入同类事业中为了治愈该类疾病而贡献自己的一份力量。
一个苟延残喘但维持着跳动的心脏作为主体物被放置在了中央，而它的表面被打了无数的补丁，预示着遭受百般挫折与治疗方式之后，即使千疮百孔，依旧展现出了对于生命和活着的渴望。利用不同材料制成的膏药形成了一片片的“补丁”，被硬生生的缝合在了心脏上，为了治愈伤疤而形成了更大的伤疤。
移动影像部分的加入将整个故事通过艺术的手法进行了再构同时披露了其中的无奈和心酸，心脏中的血管则作为媒介串联了相互之间的关系。让这个微弱的器官依旧在倾述着自己曾经发生在自己身上的过往与过去，同时也在憧憬着未来可能发生的一切。
该项目同时也与正在和UCL生物学家Dr.Alexander Seifalian 合作，试图通过科学的手段将依托自身细胞生长从而达到培养自身器官组织替换坏死器官部分的手段逐渐带入人类医学中。目前也正在紧密合作，基于碳微分子架构来培养人体干细胞同时生殖器官细胞，相信在不久的将来能够真正造福人类。
一个苟延残喘但维持着跳动的心脏作为主体物被放置在了中央，而它的表面被打了无数的补丁，预示着遭受百般挫折与治疗方式之后，即使千疮百孔，依旧展现出了对于生命和活着的渴望。利用不同材料制成的膏药形成了一片片的“补丁”，被硬生生的缝合在了心脏上，为了治愈伤疤而形成了更大的伤疤。
移动影像部分的加入将整个故事通过艺术的手法进行了再构同时披露了其中的无奈和心酸，心脏中的血管则作为媒介串联了相互之间的关系。让这个微弱的器官依旧在倾述着自己曾经发生在自己身上的过往与过去，同时也在憧憬着未来可能发生的一切。
该项目同时也与正在和UCL生物学家Dr.Alexander Seifalian 合作，试图通过科学的手段将依托自身细胞生长从而达到培养自身器官组织替换坏死器官部分的手段逐渐带入人类医学中。目前也正在紧密合作，基于碳微分子架构来培养人体干细胞同时生殖器官细胞，相信在不久的将来能够真正造福人类。
Overall in exhibition Bio Design
Exhibition version of overall
Exhibition version of video part
Detail of installations
A faintly beating heart installation
Bio material of different treatment modalities
Director & project producer : Alvin Qianhao Chen , Yijun Chen
Sound & Moving image producer : Yijun Chen
Installation & Bio design producer ： Alvin Qianhao Chen
Visual producer : Alvin Qianhao Chen
Project advisor: Charlotte Jarvis , Dr. Alexander Seifalian
Project developed at: Royal College of Art White City , Royal College of Art Battersea
Project exhibited on : Royal College of Art White City , Bio design Ceremony
Special thanks: Xuchen An , Anran Yang ，Yijun Chen