Stevan Kojić: A Self-Sustainable System of Absurdity

Stevan Kojić: A Self-Sustainable System of Absurdity
Installation, changeable dimensions
26 August–17 September 2021
artKIT

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition A Self-Sustainable System of Absurdity, intermedia installation by Stevan Kojić, which will take place on Thursday, 26 August 2021, at 7 p.m. in the artKIT exhibition space.

INVITATION (PDF)
ABOUT EXHIBITION (PDF)

A Self-Sustaining System of Absurdity is an interactive-autonomous, hybrid and generative installation, a bio-technological structure that is an independent, self-sustainable and self-sufficient form, but at the same time also a futuristic experimental habitat, open towards potential external interactions or possible users and settlers. The interactive environment is constructed from active subjects, rejected organic and non-organic objects such as personal possessions: a bicycle, bathtub and the like, electronic waste and plants connected by means of sensors and computers, elements that become an interface of sorts, serving for the purpose of communication between a visitor and a computer. It constitutes an allusion to post-apocalyptic spaces, utopian/dystopian micro-communities based on a new cohabitation between man, nature and technology through an emphasis of the absurdity of some social relations.

The art project A Self-Sustainable System of Absurdity (2010–2020) deals with topics such as: ecology, artificial intelligence and creation of self-sustainable systems, and also with the issues of private and public relations, the problem of perception of the content and changeability of information.

Stevan Kojić (1973, Kikinda) graduated from and obtained his MA Degree at the Department of Sculpture of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He completed his doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where he is employed as a Full Professor at the Department of New Fine Arts Media. Through his artistic practice, he explores the relations between society, technology, science and nature. He most often realises his interdisciplinary research through hybrid installations, digital animation works and photography. He has exhibited within the framework of group and solo exhibitions in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, France, Croatia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Macedonia, Germany, Romania, the USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey and Serbia.

https://stevankojic.com/

Admission is free. Please, follow the recommendations of the NIJZ/NIPH while visiting the event.

< Stevan Kojić, Another World, Saša Marčeta Foundation, Cinema Balkan, Belgrade, 2020.

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