Entropic Clonography (2024)

Johanna Bruckner in collaboration with Ann-Kathrin Kluss and Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek

Productions stills, Johanna Bruckner, 2024.
Productions stills, Johanna Bruckner, 2024.
Productions stills, Johanna Bruckner, 2024.

Plants crawling across the floor like tentacles, their glass surface refracting the artificial light, a video screen amidst the inorganic garden. On-screen, dynamic overlays of found footage and computer-generated sequences are populated by fantastic creatures that travel across time and space, transgressing their respective points of origin. By way of her fictional image worlds, artist Johanna Bruckner explores intimacy, hybrid life forms, and models of care beyond binary systems. Through the lens of biopolitics, ecology, queer theory, and posthumanism, she exposes fallacies and biases, replacing them with more complex, pluralistic narratives. Accordingly, the new multimedia work Entropic Clonography evolves around solar energy, situating the study thereof between cartographic history, algorithmic governance, and poetic speculation. In the exhibition, moving images, plastic sculptures, and performing bodies probe human and non-human co-existence, therein questioning agency and existing sustainability practices. In the Anthropocene, the human body itself turns into an interface for geo-engineering – and the disassembling and reconstructing of organic life as we know it begins. Throughout the journey, mental and emotional states oscillate, paying tribute to their own relativity: How will the deep interconnectedness with neural networks shape our self-image in the future – and who is writing the script? What if, in an age of energy and data-mining, a meta reading of the shape and feel of energy has become a survival strategy?

Genre
mediaAVBasedPerformance
filmVideo
singleScreenVideoInstallationSculpture
Methods
aIMachineLearning