{"id":1319926,"date":"2024-08-12T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hkadc.tecturasystem.com\/event\/jen-bervins-silk-poems\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:10:36","slug":"jen-bervins-silk-poems","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/event\/jen-bervins-silk-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Bervin&#8217;s Silk Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Bervin\u2019s Silk Poems began as a six-year research project (2010\u20132016) developed with expertise from more than thirty international textile archives, medical libraries, nanotechnology and biomedical labs, and sericulture sites in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.<br \/>\nBeyond silk\u2019s traditional use in textiles, researchers are now experimenting with the material in novel forms of biomedical technology, as silk is compatible with human tissue; the immune system can accept silk on surfaces as sensitive as the human brain. In the UMAG exhibition Silk Poems, visual artist and author Bervin melds the medium\u2019s traditional applications with cutting edge research\u2014engaging with silk\u2019s cultural, scientific and linguistic complexities.<br \/>\nIn 2016, Ms Bervin collaborated with scientists at the Tufts University Bioengineering Department on fabricating her poetry at nanoscale. In this process, a mask was used to etch her poetry in gold spatter onto a silicon wafer, and then liquid silk was poured over the wafer. As the silk dried, the letters remained suspended in the film, resulting in a work that can be viewed through a microscope.<br \/>\nThroughout the exhibition, Bervin\u2019s poetry is recreated in the form of a strand of DNA so as to reflect both the filament pattern that silkworms create when making their cocoon and the genetic structure of silk, which forms like the weft thread in weaving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373317,373489],"area_type":[350138],"event_language":[],"series":[],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1319926","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-visual-arts-en","event_category-visual-arts-mixed-media-and-installation-en","area_type-local","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1319926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1319926"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1319926"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1319926"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1319926"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1319926"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1319926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}