Author: HATA, Yoshio
Title: Yoshio HATA - HANAKO - Days with 'SHAVER STARCROSS 288' - Biomechalloid.
Description: Osaka, Brain Center, 1990. 30 x 23.5 cm. 70 pp. Hardcover. Illustrated in b/w and colour. - Text in English and Japanese - With loose inserted invitation card Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 1992 - 'HANAKO - Biomechalloid' covers the time that this series began in 1985. Hanako was a large white chicken bred in Canada exclusively to efficiently lay eggs. Hata kept her in his studio, a room in a building, when she was 30 days old. In the course of a year he shot her in color and monochrome pictures, Hanako was beautiful, acting to make her presence felt. The presence of her as a 'biomachine' with the tip of her beak cut off, and laying 270 eggs a year, was a strong presentation of biotechnology as it related yo modern people. This presentation presented life in an invisible place, with human health, life and genes being controlled. [Satoru Yamamura] - Good copy

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