What worlds do we build, when the future is in the past, and we navigate through lost horizons? Through this distortion in a time of social distancing, Nacoca Ko relates her personal reality from external landscapes into the landscape of the Internet and the anxious landscape of her own mind.
Nacoca Ko created "Landscapes with the Fall of Icarus" during the pandemic. The two exhibitions, the physical at Andata Ritorno and the virtual at Newart.city, informed each other, one a “white cube” that is also nested into its virtual counterpart, a sphere.
For her project "Rapid Sky Movement", Nacoca Ko created a liminal nest through the month of October 2021. Spawning a space where multiple lines of realities converge: the physical space-time room, with its contained objects and humans, robots and sensors. In collaboration with: Alan Ixba, Jo Vargas and Antoine Félix Bürcher
Items are brought from Nacoca's studio and outside the Sabl space to create a nest for artistic research. Videos accumulated from her observations and re(de)construction of the world meet new AI-formed birdlike creatures. The original birds in the dataset are from Haeckel’s drawings who positioned them in unnatural ways, reinterpreting their beauty and potential.
The work was informed by entangling with birds that chose to nest in her home, as well as a livecam of buzzards high in the mountains, creating a nest from sticks and plastic bags, feeding city pigeons to their young.
During her Offsite Project residency, Nacoca Ko researched how plastic is not recycled, but rather shipped around the world and eventually dumped in rivers and oceans. Research revolved around certain species of bacteria, fungi, and worms that can easily digest plastic. This research evolved into a future narrative where these species mutate and proliferate, creating a new ecosystem over the ruins of humankind. Thus came the imagining of the rise of a kind of organic android, well-adapted to the new conditions, and considered by future narrators to be “Early Intelligent Hybrids.”
Nacoca Ko is an American artist in Geneva, Switzerland. Her work is a near-future exploration where virtual images swell and infiltrate a rifted materiality, seeding new cultural narratives. Questioning how recent technology influences our imaginary production, she moves between raw matter, concise digital image, and video to investigate consciousness and our experiences of reality.
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What worlds do we build, when the future is in the past, and we navigate through lost horizons? Through this distortion in a time of social distancing, Nacoca Ko relates her personal reality from external landscapes into the landscape of the Internet and the anxious landscape of her own mind.
Nacoca Ko created "Landscapes with the Fall of Icarus" during the pandemic. The two exhibitions, the physical at Andata Ritorno and the virtual at Newart.city, informed each other, one a “white cube” that is also nested into its virtual counterpart, a sphere.
For her project "Rapid Sky Movement", Nacoca Ko created a liminal nest through the month of October 2021. Spawning a space where multiple lines of realities converge: the physical space-time room, with its contained objects and humans, robots and sensors. In collaboration with: Alan Ixba, Jo Vargas and Antoine Félix Bürcher
Items are brought from Nacoca's studio and outside the Sabl space to create a nest for artistic research. Videos accumulated from her observations and re(de)construction of the world meet new AI-formed birdlike creatures. The original birds in the dataset are from Haeckel’s drawings who positioned them in unnatural ways, reinterpreting their beauty and potential.
The work was informed by entangling with birds that chose to nest in her home, as well as a livecam of buzzards high in the mountains, creating a nest from sticks and plastic bags, feeding city pigeons to their young.
During her Offsite Project residency, Nacoca Ko researched how plastic is not recycled, but rather shipped around the world and eventually dumped in rivers and oceans. Research revolved around certain species of bacteria, fungi, and worms that can easily digest plastic. This research evolved into a future narrative where these species mutate and proliferate, creating a new ecosystem over the ruins of humankind. Thus came the imagining of the rise of a kind of organic android, well-adapted to the new conditions, and considered by future narrators to be “Early Intelligent Hybrids.”
Nacoca Ko is an American artist in Geneva, Switzerland. Her work is a near-future exploration where virtual images swell and infiltrate a rifted materiality, seeding new cultural narratives. Questioning how recent technology influences our imaginary production, she moves between raw matter, concise digital image, and video to investigate consciousness and our experiences of reality.
SCHAU Copyright © 2022