Virophilia
Pei-Ying Lin
9 till 10 Jun 2018
Opening: Saturday 9 Jun 2018 — 17:00 till 19:00 hrs

This exhibition is an introduction to Pei-Ying Lin's concept of 'virophilia': a love of viruses. The exhibition will utilise graphics and text in order to preview Lin's upcoming cookbook project. This cookbook, featuring recipes, futuristic food aesthetics, new (virus) farming/economy systems, gastronomy rituals and a toolkit for inventing, will be aiming to make readers look positively on viruses and their roles in our world.

After this, you will become a 'virophiliac'.

Currently an artist in resident with 3Package Deal with airWG, Waag Society, Mediamatic, and Vrije Universiteit, Pei-Ying Lin has been expanding her interests in bacteria, viruses and biology during her residency at airWG.

You can find more information about the airWG program on the  website. The artist Pei-Ying Lin is our resident artist from November 2017 till August 2018.

On the artist

Pei-Ying Lin is a bio-art designer and artist from Taiwan, who is spending nine months at AirWG, as part of the AFK Amsterdam Fund for the Arts programme for outstanding international talent. Her work focuses on combining science and human society through artistic methods, looking for common ground in different cultural perspectives shaping individual perceptions of the world. During her Amsterdam residency she is working on a project in collaboration with Mediamatic, De Waag & University of Amsterdam.

Pei-Ying received a Bachelor of Science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and a Master of Arts at Royal College of Art, London. She is the founder of Taiwanese BioArt Community.

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