Institute for Advanced Architecture, IAAC Lecture Series
IAAC Lecture Series – Maja Smrekar
Abundance of Otherness
Artist talk on Maja Smrekar’s work that derives from an interdisciplinary artistic research, exploring intersections between the human and the animal and intertwining these contexts with technology. Smrekar stems from the premise that humans and their environments mutually colonise each other. In her attempts to challenge these relations, she constructs situations that happen on a (micro-)political level and furthermore on a molecular one. She interconnects nature, technology and interspecies communication, as well as the correlation between the exploitation of the natural world and the oppression of other. Drawing inspiration from different media, including performative elements, such as durational and photo performance; Smrekar extends her work into micro performativity that emphasises on the processes within the human body, including the nonhuman subjectivities.