QUIMERA ROSA
QUIMERA ROSA
Trans*Plant: an OncoMouse™ journey, 2019. Two closed caption video monitors, text.
This installation features documentation from two experimental foci of Quimera Rosa’s Trans*Plant project, a process that engages the body towards a human>plant hybridization: biomedical research in order to replicate PhotoDynamic Therapy (based on the capacity of an intravenous photosensitive molecule to destroy malignant cells,) and the molecular journey of self experimentation, using a chlorophyll IV.
Through their work, Quimera Rosa seeks to produce non natural cyborg identities from a transdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the creation of transdisciplinary projects and performances, the elaboration of electronic devices that work with body practices, and biohacking experiments. They assume Donna Haraway’s notion of cyborg, defining it as: “chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”