Contact
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Bio
Polina Hortivliuk (he/they/she) is an intermedia artist, scholar and performer from Ukraine working on the intersection of technology, ecology and queer politics.
Creating with living and decomposing materials, bioelectric signals and found ecologies they compose architectures that explore porous boundaries between bodies, technologies and systems of power. Each work is a negotiation between care and corrosion, between survival and the slow tenderness of collapse.
Having lived through war and displacement, having studied ecology and fine arts, their artistic and political activism fuses with queer and ecological movements that resist capitalist acceleration. His research, performances, installations, and community organizing work cultivate spaces where care and remembrance become forms of resistance — where decay and death, rather than being an end, become a way to listen and to begin again.
Statement
Under the reign of late stage capitalism extraction processes become ubiquitous, and technofascism dictates new ways of production, new forms of labour and resources. Power structures mine them on all levels – especially digitally, with the help of technology produced by ideologies of extraction and user incarceration. Data is new gold, attention is new dollar. The more time we spend on devices, designed to capture and modulate our being – the more money is earned by those who introduced that technology in the first place.
Technology is entering our body – mediating our brain capacities, our attention span, our dopamine production – we are paying with our carnality for quick pleasures of digital incarceration.
In my work, I often position the player as both subject and resource. I like to imagine a machine that does not disguise itself for what it’s not – an arcade where the control panel is enmeshed with our own organicity, our bodies – it’s decaying the same way we are, yet the data it mines from our bodies is gonna be turned into profit by those, who own all machines.
I like to work with mediation, on the intersection of innate organicity and technological cosmologies. I explore personal expressions of identity and how they are shaped by global powerstructures. I like to work on both micro and macro levels simultaneously, reciting cyclical patterns on all levels of being. The narratives I build in my practice tend to look at the world through eco-feminist holistic lenses, yet often express deeply lived emotional experiences.
My mediums include original biodegradable materials, sensors, sonic experiments and interactions between different human/non-human agents through performance and installations. I embody identities I create.