Progressive Disorder
by Christine Borland (2001)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progressive Disorder is an extensive and fascinating document of Christine Borland's exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts in November 1999. This body of work comprised five projects that developed from the artist's period of research with geneticists, medical sociologists and biochemists at Glasgow and Dundee Universities. The publication brings together photographs and texts from the exhibition along with background information relating to the projects themselves.

These compelling works employ a variety of materials used in DNA research to explore issues of morality, mortality, individuality and the construction of identity. Utilizing the stunning aesthetics of the most basic living forms, including a jellyfish whose DNA is used in human genetic research - Progressive Disorder charts the gap between that which cannot be rationalized by science nor expressed by art.

Progressive Disorder is co-published by Book Works and Dundee Contemporary Arts, with a specially commissioned essay by Jonathan Jones.

An edition of 1,500 copies with hardcover and 72 pages in full colour.
ISBN 0 953517 83 7
Price £17.50. Designed by Dalrymple

Sharp-Talk

Lavinia Greenlaw was commissioned to write a text on Progressive Disorder as part of Sharp-Talk, an online series of texts about Book Works titles. Click here to read the texts.
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