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![One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic
Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May),
Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells
taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say
the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and
clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show
opened...
Ms Antonelli says the jacket “started growing, growing, growing
until it became too big. And [the artists] were back in Australia, so I
had to make the decision to kill it. And you know what? I felt I could
not make that decision. I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden
I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat...That thing was
never alive before it was grown.”
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7834](http://cdn07.dayviews.com/15/_u1/_u7/_u9/_u6/_u8/u179688/59725_1210243154/One_of_the_central_works_in_the_exhibition_Design_and_the_Elastic_Mind_at_the_Museum_of_Modern_Art.jpg)
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One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic
Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May),
Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells
taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say
the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and
clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show
opened...
Ms Antonelli says the jacket “started growing, growing, growing
until it became too big. And [the artists] were back in Australia, so I
had to make the decision to kill it. And you know what? I felt I could
not make that decision. I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden
I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat...That thing was
never alive before it was grown.”
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7834
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