LAURA STINGER
1 Julho 2021 – 31 Julho 2021
BIO:
LAURA STINGER is a North American transdisciplinary artist. Laura works in sculpture, performance, collaboration, and research. Their practice coalesces around relationship to nature and the other, seeking to queer/disrupt this binary. Laura's most recent work, "Disturbed Landscapes," (with M Rasmussen) brought together living mycelium sculptures, research, and sound and movement artists to create a shifting installation. The interspecies collaboration imagined an interdependent way of life amidst capitalist induced climate chaos. The work drew from decentralized organizational strategies in nature, such as fungi, to structure the process; each artist added or subtracted to the installation as they wished over one week with no hierarchy determining the creative output. Currently they are continuing work on their decomposing sculptures series which explores the possibility of a monument as a site of constant change instead of history in stasis. The monuments are built from organic materials through a series of scores dictated by a machine learning bot, where the durational flux creates an illegible, non-rational object.
PROJECT:
OPEN STUDIO, Laura Stinger, "Here is my eyes aren't”
28, 29, 30 July
PERFORMANCE, "Here is my eyes aren't”
28 July, 18h
ARTIST TALK
30 July, 18h
LAURA STINGER is a North American transdisciplinary artist. Laura works in sculpture, performance, collaboration, and research. Their practice coalesces around relationship to nature and the other, seeking to queer/disrupt this binary. Laura's most recent work, "Disturbed Landscapes," (with M Rasmussen) brought together living mycelium sculptures, research, and sound and movement artists to create a shifting installation. The interspecies collaboration imagined an interdependent way of life amidst capitalist induced climate chaos. The work drew from decentralized organizational strategies in nature, such as fungi, to structure the process; each artist added or subtracted to the installation as they wished over one week with no hierarchy determining the creative output. Currently they are continuing work on their decomposing sculptures series which explores the possibility of a monument as a site of constant change instead of history in stasis. The monuments are built from organic materials through a series of scores dictated by a machine learning bot, where the durational flux creates an illegible, non-rational object.
PROJECT:
At Zaratan, Laura expanded this intersection of materiality and subjectivities, pushing the western notion of the boundary of human as it is challenged by indigenous relationships to land, by bacteria, and by artificial intelligence. All three are demanding we question the enlightenment belief that man is an individual entity, separate from nature.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:OPEN STUDIO, Laura Stinger, "Here is my eyes aren't”
28, 29, 30 July
PERFORMANCE, "Here is my eyes aren't”
28 July, 18h
ARTIST TALK
30 July, 18h