5/7/2023 0 Comments Lazarus project![]() ![]() Shepard stopped the clone from escaping the Citadel with the Normandy SR-2. It was awakened by disillusioned ex-Cerberus operative Maya Brooks six months before the Reaper invasion, and Brooks convinced it to kill and assume the identity of the original Shepard in order to pursue a pro-human agenda. The clone was kept a secret, intended to be used for spare organs and other body parts over the course of the true Shepard's revival through the Lazarus Project, but it was never utilized and remained in storage. When there was an attempt to steal Commander Shepard's identity in 2186, the Commander tracked down the person behind the scheme and discovered it was none other than a clone created by Cerberus. “There won't be an Earth left to save.” - Spoilers for Mass Effect 3 follow. The project proves to be a success in 2185 when Shepard manages to regain full neurological activity. As part of the project, Shepard underwent facial reconstruction and partially lost prior abilities and talents. The one thing that the Illusive Man refused to do was implant a control chip in the Commander's brain, fearing that it may affect Shepard's personality and abilities. Undertaken by the Lazarus Cell, which was headed by Miranda Lawson and her assistant Wilson, it involved attaching cybernetic implants to reconstruct the Commander's skeleton, reconstruction of the skin, and fluids to restart the blood flow and internal organs. The exorbitant project took 2 years and over 4 billion credits to complete. The Illusive Man created and funded the Lazarus Project, pouring virtually unlimited resources into the belief that only Shepard could stop the Reaper threat to humanity as the Council stood idly by. When Commander Shepard was killed in a Collector attack that also resulted in the destruction of the SSV Normandy, Cerberus was able to recover Shepard's corpse with the help of Liara T'Soni. The Lazarus Project was piloted in May 2016 in Hudson NY as the concluding presentation of a six week artist-in-residency at Free Columbia For twelve years, Free Columbia has served as an active investigation into the decommodification of art, with the explicit goal of creating a space for free culture in Columbia County, New York.The Lazarus Project was a Cerberus project, the sole purpose of which was to bring Commander Shepard back from the dead. It has created an ever changing body of work including paintings, drawings, video, monoprints, text and performance. Our collaborative exploration of these questions has led through themes as diverse as virtual reality and trans-humanism, popular understandings of life-after-death, historical and contemporary initiation and the role of art in social life. We took this to mean, “What is needed today to wake up from a death like sleep of materialism? How can art be an instigator here? What would happen if human beings awoke to the greater needs of the people around them, to the needs of the earth, to the needs of the culture, to the needs of the spirit?” The Lazarus Project was inspired when a colleague of ours who works to end gang violence in Los Angeles, said to Laura, “ I am interested in the image of Lazarus”. The Lazarus Project is an ongoing collaboration between Finnish multimedia artist Sampsa Pirtola and New York painter Laura Summer.
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