In July 2021 Robertina Šebjanič, Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick were hosted by PiNA, at the international art residency of the RUK network.
Their project, Interweaving the Subaqueous – AquA(l)formings follows the thread of a more-than-human inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea, who records, or encodes a form of oceanic »memory« as a by-product of its existence. Through a conceptual braiding of the fields of art, marine biology, artificial intelligence and sound, it gives a poetic reflection upon the Pinna Nobilis – the noble pen shell and meadows of seagrass as part of a continuous cycle of presence. This looping act, enacted over time, is at once an encoding and decoding of lived experience, one that connects it to a geological scale. Through attempting to unveil this hidden storytelling, a space is woven that aims to nurture the potential for empathic development of interspecies and our relationships with the more-than-human in the ever-changing present, that can be woven into many potential futures.
Credits:
Artists: Robertina Šebjanič, Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick
Consultancy: Matjaž Ličer, Marko Vivoda
Mechanical part development: Scenart, Ljubljana
Special thanks: Manja Rogelja, Aquarium Piran, Borut Jerman
Production: PiNA, 2021
Robertina Šebjanič is an internationally acclaimed artist. Her artistic work deals with the cultural, (bio)political and ecological realities of aquatic environments. In her projects, she tackles the philosophical questions at the intersection of art, technology and science.
Sofia Crespo (Entangled Others) is an artist with a focus on artificial life, her practice is driven by a huge interest in biologically inspired technologies, such as neural networks. Her main focus is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve.
https://sofiacrespo.com/
https://entangledothers.studio/
Feileacan McCormick (Entangled Others) is a berlin-based generative artist, researcher and a former architect. His practice focuses on ecology, nature and generative arts, with a focus on giving non-human new forms of presence and life in the digital space.
https://entangledothers.studio/
Photo: Klemen Skočir
