Oh my . emergent phenomenon (2025)
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**Videoperformance
2025
4K, 8,56 Min**
The video work negotiates questions of resources and aligns with ecofeminist approaches that understand nature not as an exploitable commodity, but as an interconnected and coequal assemblage. Within this framework, the human is no longer positioned at the center; instead, it is understood as one element within a complex ecosystem. The human and the non-human are placed on the same ontological level and enter into relations of interdependence. This decentralization of the human constitutes the conceptual core of the work. The video performance functions as an explanatory fragment of a creature that guides the narrative throughout the piece. This creature senses something it cannot see or fully comprehend. From this epistemic limitation emerges a Sisyphean search — a repeated striving toward understanding that never fully resolves. In the process, the creature repeatedly enters reddish states of transformation. These chromatic shifts signal…
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Oh my . emergent phenomenon (2025)
Artist
Description
**Videoperformance
2025
4K, 8,56 Min**
The video work negotiates questions of resources and aligns with ecofeminist approaches that understand nature not as an exploitable commodity, but as an interconnected and coequal assemblage. Within this framework, the human is no longer positioned at the center; instead, it is understood as one element within a complex ecosystem. The human and the non-human are placed on the same ontological level and enter into relations of interdependence. This decentralization of the human constitutes the conceptual core of the work. The video performance functions as an explanatory fragment of a creature that guides the narrative throughout the piece. This creature senses something it cannot see or fully comprehend. From this epistemic limitation emerges a Sisyphean search — a repeated striving toward understanding that never fully resolves. In the process, the creature repeatedly enters reddish states of transformation. These chromatic shifts signal…





