ABSTRACT This paper examines a series of experimental art-science projects that attempt to resurrect dead or endangered forms of life. Focusing on works by Marguerite Humeau, Diemut Strebe, Pinar Yoldas and Svenja Kratz, each of which was developed in close collaboration with scientists, often in laboratory environments, the paper approaches art-science collaborations of this sort as a flourishing field of emerging and experimental art. It takes as its central onbject of concern the shared practice that has made recent art-science collaborations so productive: their mutual interest in reimagining the possibilities of life and the body in an era in which these can be so fundamentally re-engineered, which this paper examines this under the rubric of ‘speculative biology’. The multi-disciplinary art projects examined in this paper thus invite us to reflect upon the precarity of life, during a period that finds itself at the crossroads of a rapidly increasing series of extinction and climate change events, on the one hand, and an equally rapidly accelerating scientific and technological capacity to reengineer life and living materials, on the other.

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投机生物学：艺术和科学复活项目中的不稳定生活

摘要 本文考察了一系列试图复活死亡或濒临灭绝的生命形式的实验艺术科学项目。该论文侧重于 Marguerite Humeau、Diemut Strebe、Pinar Yoldas 和 Svenja Kratz 的作品，每件作品都是与科学家密切合作开发的，通常是在实验室环境中，本文将此类艺术科学合作视为新兴和实验的蓬勃发展领域艺术。它将最近的艺术科学合作如此富有成效的共同实践作为其关注的核心问题：在一个可以从根本上重新设计生命和身体的时代，他们对重新想象生命和身体的可能性的共同兴趣，这论文在“推测生物学”的标题下对此进行了研究。