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Common Flowers - Flower Commons
BCL,
Shiho Fukuhara,
Georg Tremmel
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The “Common Flowers” project is based on the first commercially available genetically modified flower, the blue “Moondust” GM carnation developed and marketed by Japanese beer-brewing company Suntory. But although Suntory applied for and was granted permission to grow this GM plant in its key markets, it has chosen not to. Instead the blue GM flowers are grown in Columbia, harvested, and shipped as cut flowers to the worldwide markets.
With “Common Flowers” we reverse the plantgrowing process, by growing, multiplying and technically “cloning” new plants from purchased cut flowers using plant tissue culture methods. The blue GM carnations are brought back to life using DIY biotech methods involving everyday kitchen utensils and easily purchasable and ready materials.
And because the plants are officially considered “not harmful” and therefore legally permitted to be grown outside, we took the next logical step and released the blue GM carnation into the environment. This action is intended ask questions about the state of intellectual property, ownership and copyright issues surrounding the bio-hacking and bio-bending of plants. Our goal is to make these flowers available as shared “common flowers” and to create the free spaces where they can grow and prosper, in a “flower commons”.
Links: www.common-flowers.org
With “Common Flowers” we reverse the plantgrowing process, by growing, multiplying and technically “cloning” new plants from purchased cut flowers using plant tissue culture methods. The blue GM carnations are brought back to life using DIY biotech methods involving everyday kitchen utensils and easily purchasable and ready materials.
And because the plants are officially considered “not harmful” and therefore legally permitted to be grown outside, we took the next logical step and released the blue GM carnation into the environment. This action is intended ask questions about the state of intellectual property, ownership and copyright issues surrounding the bio-hacking and bio-bending of plants. Our goal is to make these flowers available as shared “common flowers” and to create the free spaces where they can grow and prosper, in a “flower commons”.
Links: www.common-flowers.org
Georg Tremmel (AT/JP) studied Visual Media Art at the University of Applied Art in Vienna and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London, where he started his ongoing collaboration with Shiho Fukuhara.
ShihoFukuhara (JP) received a BA (Hons) in fine art from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London and continued her studies with an MA in interaction design at the Royal College of Art. They formed the artistic collaborative research framework BCL in to explore the relations, congruences and differences of biological and cultural codecs through artistic interventions and social research.
ShihoFukuhara (JP) received a BA (Hons) in fine art from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London and continued her studies with an MA in interaction design at the Royal College of Art. They formed the artistic collaborative research framework BCL in to explore the relations, congruences and differences of biological and cultural codecs through artistic interventions and social research.