The artists who are participating in the research project of kloone4000 are artists who's work is in the exhibition, as well as guest artists who will visit the project space by invitation with a specific interest.
Loréne Bourguignon: double portraits of herself and her father, paintings, drawings and prints (also exhibition)
Koen Vanmechelen: genetic art and installations, Cosmopolitan Chicken (guest artist and lecture) (BE)
Roé Cerpac: encounters (IS/NL)
Silvia B: installations and drawings, freakish images of women raise questions about beauty (also exhibition)
Lisa Holden: manipulated photography (also exhibition) (UK/NL)
Wim Hardeman: manipulated photography: tintography (also exhibition)
Anje Roosjen: paintings of extremely symmetrical twins based on altered photographs of children (also exhibition)
Joanneke Meester: installations (also exhibition)
Taco Stolk: installations (also lecture and debates)
Chrystl Rijkeboer: installations (also exhibition)
Shunji Hori: photography, video, installations, the urge to physically fuse in love relations (also exhibition) (JP/NL)
Netty van Osch: ceramic installations (also exhibition)
Agnes Maes: paintings, drawings (guest artist) (BE)
Naan Rijks: paintings (guest artist)
Mieke Smits: installations (guest artist)
Rune Peitersen: photography, video, installations (guest artist) (DK/NL)
Olga Ast: video, installations (guest artist) (USA)
Caitlin Masley: photography, drawings, installations (guest artist) (USA)
Karl Van Welden: installations (guest artist) (BE)
Erika Biddle: installations (guest artist) (USA)
Adam Zaretsky : installations, bio-art (guest artist) (USA)
Jennifer Kanary: installations (guest artist)
Hanneke van Velzen: photography (guest artist)
context
Can artists contribute to an ethical debate? How is aesthetics related to ethics?
An aesthetical judgement (if something is beautiful for example) can not be proven empirically. Aesthetic judgements are neither true nor false. They are normative statements about what is desirable and not about what is factual. Aesthetic statements are value judgements, like moral statements. It is important that these judgements are not misused in each others' place. It is possible to use an artwork to make an ethical statement under the guise of an aesthetic statement. Artists have the relative level of creative freedom given by society, which allows them to make statements that seem crazy and against all the rules but make us step off the beaten track. With their visual images they also have a powerful tool to influence the opinions and emotions of the lay public, much more effectively than the numerical results of scientific research.