art as bio

When you work with museums as we know them, they are made to keep dead things as dead as possible for as long as possible. What does it mean to put living things in this context? And how problematic it is to put a piece of life as an art object in this context?
— Oron Catts - http://eejournal.no/home/2017/5/11/oron-catts-on-future-of-arts