Scientific knowledge at the boundaries of Bioart : Life in a post-natural world
By locating « life » as a construction of technoscience and of the new bioeconomy, the article attempts to articulate the role played by Bio-art within the production of scientific knowledge. The concept of boundary-object is used to investigate the dialogue that can arise between two heterogeneous worlds around the notion of « life ». On the one hand, bioart explores the possibilities of life and living materials in its works by creatively manipulating it, and interrogating the future of humanity. The art world intervenes in scientific and biogenetic practice by using life and living materials, as a form of political resistance. On the other hand, science appropriates life by redefining it within the logic of endogenous production of knowledge in the context of the bioeconomy. The article explores the ways in which the bioartistic world, by intervening in living processes, can open up new reflexive spaces for considering life in a post-natural world.