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This photo depicts a person shaped object in a black body suit on the floor with roots growing all around them. Jae Rhim Lee’s Mushroom Death Suit is a burial suit seeded with mushroom spores that decompose the human body.

This photo portrays hundreds and rocks lined up in a row with each row increasing in height off the ground. Bennett’s Vibrant Matter encourages us to consider the agency of nonhuman actors, such as, tissues, organisms, and synthetic materials, in…

This photo depicts a woman with what appears to be a bobcat wrapped around her shoulders with sand dunes under her. Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto famously critiques the boundaries between human, animal, and machine. Her notion of the cyborg serves as a…

This photo depicts a stuffed fawn on a white pedestal with a center light on it. The fawn has metal rods sticking out it's legs and surrounding it. Becoming Animal at the Mass MoCA looked at nonhuman life and agency in art.

This photo has a large container sitting on what looks like a wooden table with organs growing inside clear container with blue liquid inside. Wetware: Art, Agency, Animation at the Beall Center for Art + Technology showcased works where artists…

This photo showcases the Bio Art pamphlet from the Altered Realities exposition at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore which addresses genetic engineering's ethical and social dimensions.

A ticket from the February 6, 2003 showing of the Wedding Band performed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in association with Congo Square Theatre. The ticket is small with black writing and a white and red background.

This is a photo of heads hanging on a gray wall with cases on pedestals below each head. Heather Dewey-Hagborg collected DNA from public spaces to reconstruct 3D portraits of anonymous individuals

This picture depicts Tuur Van Balen with a cage releasing a pigeon. The pigeons he is releasing is genetically modified in order to excrete soap instead of leaving feces.

This Artist discusses the future of the human body by conducting plastic surgery as an art medium