1. Disruptive avant-garde art of today : shaping post-growth imaginaries for symbiotic futuresKristina Pranjić, Magdalena Germek, Peter Purg, 2024, published scientific conference contribution Keywords: imaginary, conviviality, symbiosis, cosmopolitics, defuturing, posthumanities, intermedia art Published in RUNG: 02.07.2024; Views: 847; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
2. To know a tree : symbiotic mutualism and artistic exploration against anthropocentric sciencePeter Purg, Kristina Pranjić, 2024, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: In order to develop new symbiotic relationships and different imaginaries, it is first necessary to critically restructure the representations of forms of cooperation, which in their positive, desired version usually represent a certain romantic idea of nature and human, and the possibilities for a harmonious model and holistic structure of reality. This can be seen in both eco art and activist ecological agendas, which often play on feelings of harmony and mutual reciprocity, and actually further contribute to a distorted and extremely one-dimensional image of reality. Using the concepts of conviviality and cosmpolitics, the article aims to offer new concepts of symbiosis and symbiotic futures that face today's process of defuturing. The second point of the article is to develop a convincing and solid alternative to the neoliberal view of market-driven models based on competencies and the logic of growth. Therefore, the actual task for disruptive avant-garde art of today should be understood as the decolonization of our imaginaries that perceive nature through the logic of growth and the harmonious model in the direction of shaping post-growth imaginaries for symbiotic futures. Keywords: imaginary, conviviality, symbiosis, cosmopolitics, defuturing, posthumanities, intermedia art Published in RUNG: 02.07.2024; Views: 931; Downloads: 4 Full text (151,64 KB) This document has many files! More... |
3. The rupture and the connection : nonrepresentation and participation in art for socio-ecological changeKristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, 2024, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: Exploring the relationship between the rupture caused by non-representation on the one hand and the connection fostered through active participation on the other, this contribution in environmental humanities seeks to consolidate an ecocritical perspective that includes posthumanism, new materialism, and ecological theory, particularly within the field of art and art history. The first part lays its theoretical groundwork by focusing on the concept of non-representation as developed in formalist discourse and avant-garde artistic experiments. By examining the radical defamiliarization of nature and objects, the article shows how this process enables the redefinition of normative standards and the formation of an ecological epistemology rooted in non-hierarchical perspectives as critical for achieving tangible and meaningful change. On the other end of the artistic spectrum, presented in the second part, two cases of artivist and participative practices are revealed as examples of implementing change through intersubjective experience within artistic frameworks. The recent shift in community artistic practice towards enabling subjects’ participation and reacting to societal demands includes geographical peripheries and marginalized groups. A new aesthetics of interconnectedness may show that reality is not our mirror image, but rather a gradual embracing of the manifold entanglements that need to be addressed through artistic eco-imaginaries and posthumanist inclusivity. Keywords: community art, avant-garde art, abstraction, social change, ecocriticism Published in RUNG: 02.07.2024; Views: 983; Downloads: 8 Full text (15,72 MB) This document has many files! More... |
4. Taming the forest : embracing the complexity of art-sci research through microhistory, bioeconomics and intermedia artNikita Peresin Meden, Kristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: An ongoing collaborative project between art and science, Taming the Forest (2022) was implemented by a team of students, artists and researchers charting an interdisciplinary project among bioeconomics, environmental history, policy and artistic practice. In this article, the project acts as a case study for researching the conflicting narratives of history and economics about biodiversity in general, and specifically about forests. It shows how different blends of methodologies in artistic-cum-scientific research can become relevant for both realms, opening new creative pathways and pedagogical registers while repeatedly returning to a specific forest’s microhistory. Moreover, the article stresses the need for a new sensibility and complex knowledge, moving beyond an objective study and becoming attentive to different dimensions of research and its outputs that emerge through the introduction of artistic thinking and methodologies. This kind of transdisciplinary approach becomes necessary in order to tackle the manifold large-scale problems such as the climate and biodiversity crises, which call for both acting decisively and transforming radically, above all with regard to how humans perceive, relate to and manage nature. Keywords: biodiversity, climate crisis, environmental history, forest management, Karst, transdisciplinary, artistic thinking, artistic research Published in RUNG: 01.07.2024; Views: 787; Downloads: 8 Full text (1,80 MB) This document has many files! More... |
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8. Spreminjanje imaginarija napredka in rasti v avantgardnih in intermedijskih umetniških praksahKristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: Članek povezuje umetnostno avantgardo z začetka dvajsetega stoletja ter današnjo intermedijsko in družbeno angažirano umetniško prakso. Osrednja teza je, da lahko v predstavljenih primerih umetniških del najdemo koncepte ter modele za razmišljanje in življenje onkraj imperativa rasti in nenehnega napredka. Tovrstne umetniške strategije so predstavljene v petih sklopih, ki obravnavajo teme, kot so lenoba in izginotje, kozmopolitizem in univerzalni jezik, alternativne predstave prostora/časa, transhumanizem, posthumanizem in sistemski pogled na svet. Tako kot so nekoč avantgarde opravljale kritiko industrijske oz. moderne družbe, tako danes intermedijska umetnost prispeva k prestrukturiranju imaginarija rasti ter kapitalistične proizvodnje in potrošnje. Članek doprinaša k premišljevanju konceptov postrasti in odrasti na področju umetnosti in humanistike ter prikaže, kako je prav umetnost tista, preko katere je možno pozitivno razumevanje nemoči in opuščanja oz. nasprotja rasti, kar navadno razumemo kot izključno negativno — kot pomanjkanje in izgubo. Keywords: umetnost, družba, avantgarda, intermedijska umetnost, ekokritika, ideologija rasti, postkapitalizem Published in RUNG: 21.11.2023; Views: 1878; Downloads: 12 Full text (2,86 MB) This document has many files! More... |
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10. The algorithms of abstraction: from constructivism to computer and post-gravity art : lecture at the RE:SOURCE 2023, 18th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Venice, 16. 9. 2023Kristina Pranjić, 2023, unpublished conference contribution Keywords: Medijska umetnost, računalniška umetnost, postgravitacijska umetnost, konstruktivizem, abstrakcija, Edvard Zajec, Avgust Černigoj, Dragan Živadinov Published in RUNG: 20.09.2023; Views: 1971; Downloads: 6 Full text (677,45 KB) |