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Friday, July 27, 2012
Pigs Bladder Football
Leave it to the Brits.
Pig bladders have for centuries been used in the manufacturing of sports
equipment. Light, solid, and stretchable, they made perfect airtight membranes
inside the first footballs. Artist John O'Shea is now going back to this traditional
method, fusing it with cutting-edge biotechnology to create the first football
made with a pig bladder entirely grown in a lab..Commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices
(AND) Festival and funded by the Wellcome Trust, Pigs
Bladder Football was inspired by the first successful transplant of
a bioengineered organ, a urinary bladder, in 2006. August 30-September 7, 2012, CUBE (Centre for the Urban Built
Environment), Manchester; Abandon Normal Devices Festival, August 29 – September 2,
2012, throughout Manchester, Liverpool,
Lancashire, and Cumbria.
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