GUK+ • Ingirafn Steinarsson

An attempt to make a Ingirafnius GUK+ mice species.

 

This work is an attempt to make a Ingirafnius GUK+ mice species.

I hope the traps I have made will catch mice that I will then collect and breed, the unique Ingirafnius GUK+ Species.

The work will hopefully put my name somewhere on file.

Hopefully it will have a meaning for someone, maybe for scientists, genologists?

My idea is that I make this mouse species and that it will be unique. The work is historical, living history perhaps. The mouse species is alive and needs to be sustained, I imagine that this work can not be copied. Who are the original mice.

If for example someone wanted to buy it, it would cost him money whether he would take care of it himself or hire someone to do it. It would be priceless or less valuable if the mice die.

This is also an experiment with the trap, if it works. I tried to make it so that it would stand three months of wind and rain. It should be interesting for people and for mice. Like trying to get people who have money to come to museums.

If the work then has no meaning because I as an artist don't matter or the piece does not matter, maybe the mice matter because they are a special mix or because someone does not want them to die. Anyhow, I have influenced my surroundings somehow and more so than if I would make a piece that did not include genes.

To take things that exist and move them on purpose.

(Roughly translated by GUK)


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