It Is Indeed a Dance
(2025)
author(s): Polina Masevnina
published in: FFA BUT – Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
It Is Indeed a Dance is a project exploring the emotional, psychological, and cultural shifts within contemporary romantic discourse. Using the metaphor of dance as a dynamic, often asymmetrical interplay between self and other, the project investigates love and post-love conditions marked by ambivalence, hyper-awareness, and emotional fatigue. Drawing on concepts such as limerence, attachment theory, fantasy bonding, and “situationships,” it examines how psychological language has entered everyday dating vocabulary—shaping not only how we talk about love, but how we experience it. Through autotheoretical writing, visual media and spatial compositions, the project seeks to map and mediate intimate dynamics in an era where connection feels both over-analyzed and elusive. It reflects on the contradictions of contemporary intimacy, where vulnerability is praised but rarely safe, and communication is vital yet often ineffective in post-romantic conditions.
environment embodiment - towards poetic narratives
(2024)
author(s): Fernanda Branco
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition presents the PhD Artistic Research project environment embodiment - towards poetic narratives by Fernanda Branco at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2020-2024).
This artistic research explores experiential agency in encounters between body and environment. It draws from uncanny, embodied, and poetic perspectives and unfolds as a constellation of sympoietic practices.
PhD Supervisors:
Rebecca Hilton - Stockholm University of the Arts (2021-2024)
Gunhild Mathea Olaussen - KHiO (2021-2022)
Dora Garcia - KHiO (2023-2024)
Fernanda Branco has designed this exposition in collaboration with web designer Ellen Palmeira.
Illustrations by Aza
Drawings by Francisco Blixt
Cards and booklets designed by Amanda Costa
MULTiPLE
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Antoine Chessex
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Mutiple is a zine focusing artistic research and collaboration
