Kat Austen, CultureLab editor
A man wearing only an apron, from which hangs a bulbous protrusion in the region of his groin, stares into space. This is British artist Michael Burton's Astronomical Bodies, which will appear in the Symmetries exhibition as part of this year's Ars Electronica festival.
(Image: Theo Cook)
The artwork aims to explore the possibility of starting life on other planets using phosphorous derived from human bodies - in this case, specifically "the recovery of phosphate from our bodies in urine to create meteorites to distribute biological chemicals to hospitable celestial bodies".
It fits into the 2011 Ars Electronica theme: "Origin", in keeping with the research interests of CERN, one of the festival's partners this year. The collaboration with CERN, which is home to the Large Hadron Collider, is part of the nuclear research organisation's new cultural initiative to engage with the arts.
The festival, which starts today and runs until 6 September, is a celebration of science, technology, arts and culture. Alongside arts exhibitions, music and theatre, there will be symposia dedicated to exploring everything from quantum physics to cosmology with the likes of CERN director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer and Harvard physicist Lisa Randall.
I'm heading over to the festival in Linz, Austria, today and I'll be reporting back on the blog over the course of the next few days.
You can also keep up to speed with what I'm seeing and doing by following us on twitter (@CultureLabNS) and facebook (http://www.facebook.com/theculturelab). And if you're going to be heading down there too, let me know and come to say hi!
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