THE XENOPHON PROJECT
MCGIBBON O'LYNN
The future of the human species is an ever-expanding field, with the borders of the possible and the ethical being repeatedly redrawn and increasingly re-imagined. The Xenophon Project explores the liminal territory between the known and the unknown, the rational and the irrational, the real and the imagined.
Irish artist Siobhan McGibbon and writer Maeve O’Lynn began their collaboration in 2015; a collaboration which arose from McGibbon's period as Artist in Residence on the Chimera Art and Science Programme at CÚRAM (Centre for Research in Medical Devices) at NUI Galway and at the Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI). Together they employ a multi-disciplinary approach, combining poetic narrative, contemporary arts practice, animation and technology to explore the interstices between art and science.
The artistic duo have created the world of the Xenothorpeans, a fictional race of post-humans who were able to enhance their anatomy and genetic makeup with medical therapies, and the post-human societies they now inhabit. With each body of work, McGibbon O’Lynn continue to build upon the narrative of this post-human world, which increasingly becomes both literally and figuratively submerged, and ponder different dimensions and the consequences of enhancements.
MCGIBBON O'LYNN
The future of the human species is an ever-expanding field, with the borders of the possible and the ethical being repeatedly redrawn and increasingly re-imagined. The Xenophon Project explores the liminal territory between the known and the unknown, the rational and the irrational, the real and the imagined.
Irish artist Siobhan McGibbon and writer Maeve O’Lynn began their collaboration in 2015; a collaboration which arose from McGibbon's period as Artist in Residence on the Chimera Art and Science Programme at CÚRAM (Centre for Research in Medical Devices) at NUI Galway and at the Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI). Together they employ a multi-disciplinary approach, combining poetic narrative, contemporary arts practice, animation and technology to explore the interstices between art and science.
The artistic duo have created the world of the Xenothorpeans, a fictional race of post-humans who were able to enhance their anatomy and genetic makeup with medical therapies, and the post-human societies they now inhabit. With each body of work, McGibbon O’Lynn continue to build upon the narrative of this post-human world, which increasingly becomes both literally and figuratively submerged, and ponder different dimensions and the consequences of enhancements.
