{"id":1740,"date":"2022-03-16T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T09:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2024-03-20T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:12:04","slug":"suncica-ostoic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/suncica-ostoic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies in Intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sun\u010dica Ostoi\u0107<\/span><\/h3>\n

Meta.Morf 2024 \u2013 [up]Loaded Bodies \/ Kj\u00f8pmannsgata Ung Kunst,<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\/<\/span> Conference April 20 \/ Curator: Zane Cerpina<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bodies in Intensity<\/span><\/h5>\n

The lecture presents a conceptual framework of \u2018<\/span>intensity\u2019<\/span><\/i> and its properties in connection to bodies in interaction with the extreme, excessive, radical, and extravagant (EERE) contemporary visual art practices at the intersection of the body and technology. EERE artistic practices operate on the edge of norms, experimenting with art forms, themes, and life forms \u2013 from biological to technological entities \u2013 in an innovative and unsettling manner, stimulating various new profound experiences. Affective intensity is a sensory experience without content that possesses physical force and does not follow linguistic protocols and structures. It can become linguistically articulated when it enters the realm of semantic recognition, namely intellectual definition or feeling. However, until it is defined in emotion or language, it is a quality of pure physical force that stimulates, directs, and sustains experience. Intensities are diverse complex singularities that create unique affective situations. As such, they provoke biological-bodily actions that disrupt discursive abstraction and metadiscourse in the name of the vitality of life\u2019s processes. Visceral intensity is the fundamental affective form of embodied experience in EERE art. It is a drastic and dramatic impulse-charge that hits bodies in space and time, causing tension. Intensity is analogous, cranky, and has ecstatic qualities that oscillate forcefully, producing short, bombastic, and tense embodied effects. Bodily-shocking, yet undefined and unstable, the intensity of EERE artistic practices exists only as activity. Intensities in EERE artistic practices are enhanced and prolonged, seizing and saturating bodies. They induce a pervasive dramatic state of bodily activation of the audience experiencing unclear, linguistically undefined sensations \u2013 provoking corporeality. The corporeality activated in relation to the artwork is filled with vitality. The body, in visceral intensity, is shaken by a multitude of simultaneous possibilities \u2013 possible sensory experiences, possible feelings, and possible emotions. Therefore, intensities act by stretching bodies in options, only some of which are realized. EERE artworks thus facilitate the \u201cpushing\u201d of bodies into intensity from experiencing vitality to thought and emotion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sun\u010dica Ostoi\u0107<\/strong> (HR) is an art historian and art theorist from Zagreb, Croatia. Her area of interest lies in the practice and theory of visual arts intersecting with science, technology, and the body in the 20th and 21st centuries. She graduated in art history and philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and holds a PhD in Art and Media Sciences from the Faculty of Media and Communications, University of Singidunum in Belgrade. Her doctoral dissertation explored \u201cModalities of Extreme, Excessive, Radical, and Extravagant Contemporary Visual Art Practices,\u201d under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Miodrag \u0160uvakovi\u0107. As a co-founder and long-time director of the Zagreb-based association KONTEJNER | Bureau of contemporary art praxis, Ostoi\u0107 has worked for twenty-five years as an independent curator, organizer of artistic events, and researcher. She is the author of internationally recognized festivals of contemporary art such as Touch Me (since 2002), Device_art (since 2004), and Extravagant Bodies (since 2007). Additionally, she has authored numerous professional and scientific articles, art exhibition forewords, edited exhibition and festival catalogs, and interdisciplinary readers, as well as lectured at conferences. Since 2016, she has been an external lecturer and expert collaborator at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.<\/span><\/p>\n

www.kontejner.org<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Header graphics: Portrait photo,\u00a0<\/span>courtesy of Sun\u010dica Ostoi\u0107.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sun\u010dica Ostoi\u0107 (HR)<\/span>
Kj\u00f8pmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 20 \/
\nThe lecture presents a conceptual framework of \u2018intensity\u2019 and its properties in connection to bodies in interaction with the extreme, excessive, radical, and extravagant (EERE) contemporary visual art practices at the intersection of the body and technology. <\/p>\n

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