Plastic Drift: Chemical Messengers

Installation

Plastic Drift: Chemical Messengers, explores endocrine disruptors in plastic and its queering effects on human bodies. The chemical flows between materials indicate their transformative power to imagine posthuman bodies beyond the purity myths, organic and inorganic. We explore plastic contamination of waters and altered human bodies. By melting, soaking and scratching plastics, we provoke the extraction of chemicals to discover their disruptive processes. We use latex, similar to skin, as a porous material to render these changes visible. Wearables and sculptures allow us to engage with disruptive flows sensually and conscientiously, situated between bodily fact and bodily fiction.

In collaboration with Valentina Butumović

*

Sea Soma

Installation

Sea squirt swims freely in the sea until it finds a permanent place on the rock and swallows the nervous system. This creature provoked a theory that the brain evolved in parallel to the complexity of bodily movement.

Sea Soma is a fictional ecosystem exploring screen-dependent life in contrast to the immersive experience of seawater. While diving into embodied cognition, it opposes the mind-oriented perception of intelligence. The installation encompasses cycles of media transformations between analog and digital, capturing the dancer’s explorations of touch, skin, and the sea creature. It consists of a video projected through transparent screen sculptures, bioplastic “skin”, mobile phones on neck holders, and algorithmic sounds and images.

The project is presented at Centrum, Berlin. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media 2021/2022.

*

‘Garden Manifesto’ exists in-between collective poetry and contemplative drawings. Inspired by natural processes it forms metaphors for new relations between human and natural structures. It strives for visions of the future of art and important little things that can be found in the garden.

Garden Manifesto is part of the dynamic publication ‘Everything is New’ initiated by Nikolay Alutin.

︎︎︎ www.newiseverything.com

The project is supported by Framed Berlin, De Appel Amsterdam and Goethe Institute Netherlands.

‘Documenting Self - Loops of Digital Mediation’ is a research of relations between the digital documents, social media platforms and the activities.

Mediated experiences, skills and their documents appear as a byproducts of different media, internet and technology. Results are new modes of behaviour and movement ensued from changed daily habits and existing platforms for presentation and sharing experiences. The effects of the virtual knowledge and documented reality create new physical reactions within the mediated body-movement-space relations.

Collected internet materials are translated into speculative drawings and serve as an analytical research of those relations.

Presented within the project Dia:Forme, Goethe Institut Croatia.

‘Missing Artists’ is a virtual exhibition in the area of the Museum of Contemporary Art which brings together artworks that deal with space inside and around of the museum. The artworks can be seen only on the specific GPS coordinates and therefore, even they exist in a digital format, become dependent on the location creating a hybrid experience of the site-specific virtual work. The projects intends to overcome physical and institutional barriers between art content and audience by placing it virtually and yet attached to a location.

The invited artists do not only create the work on the theme, but also the fictional author who stands behind it. A fictional author is not only a screen but a framework of artistic experimentation and an indispensable segment of reading of every created work.

Exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia.