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  How to Speak a Foreign Language Without Mistakes (2025) author(s): Jewellery witch Seraphita published in: Research Catalogue
  How to Speak a Foreign Language Without Mistakes is a performative video piece centred around the Linguo Booster Phonecase, created for the Tactilite exhibition at Hobusepea Gallery in 2021. Jewellery witch Seraphita presents the Linguo Booster Phonecase as an intermediary between the person and language. This accessory, engaging with the oral cavity, features a cylindrical jadeite stone. Its translucent green hue harmonises with the exhibition’s style, glowing as light filters through it from the phone’s lamp. Employing Haptic Visuality, this multisensory approach weaves together emotional resonance and speculative ritual, reimagining connection within a pseudomagical framework. Idea and performance: Darja Popolitova Video effects: Jakob Tulve Sound: Andres Nõlvak © Darja Popolitova
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  How to Exercise Self-Control (2025) author(s): Jewellery witch Seraphita published in: Research Catalogue
  How to How to Exercise Self-Control is a performative video piece centred around the Irritation Channelling Rings, created for the Tactilite exhibition at Hobusepea Gallery in 2021. These jewellery pieces invite a pseudomagical interaction, crafting a ritual where the rings serve as tools to soothe irritation and foster emotional transformation. Their dynamic nature is portrayed through movement, bodily interactions, and adaptability, with the visual blur enhancing their fluidity and transformative essence. Employing Haptic Visuality, this multisensory approach weaves together emotional resonance and speculative ritual, reimagining connection within a pseudomagical framework. Idea and performance: Darja Popolitova Video effects: Jakob Tulve Sound: Andres Nõlvak © Darja Popolitova
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  How to Trigger Intimacy (2025) author(s): Jewellery witch Seraphita published in: Research Catalogue
  How to Trigger Intimacy is a performative video piece centred around the Necklace with a Very Complicated Lock, created for the Tactilite exhibition at Hobusepea Gallery in 2021. In the video, Seraphita engages with a concern that may resonate with potential viewers through her pseudo-ritual tutorial. She suggests that the absence of intimacy and closeness in one’s life can be restored through the use of the jewellery piece. Employing Haptic Visuality, this multisensory approach weaves together emotional resonance and speculative ritual, reimagining connection within a pseudomagical framework. Idea and performance: Darja Popolitova Video effects: Jakob Tulve Sound: Andres Nõlvak © Darja Popolitova
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  How to Make Someone Important (2025) author(s): Jewellery witch Seraphita published in: Research Catalogue
  How to Make Someone Important is a performative video piece centred around the Importance Booster Medal, created for the Tactilite exhibition at Hobusepea Gallery in 2021. The work delves into pseudomagic through symbolic rituals and sensory interactions. Seraphita intentionally trivialises the act of recognition: a person’s sense of importance is heightened when presented with a medal of merit. Employing Haptic Visuality, this multisensory approach weaves together emotional resonance and speculative ritual, reimagining connection within a pseudomagical framework. Idea and performance: Darja Popolitova Video effects: Jakob Tulve Sound: Andres Nõlvak © Darja Popolitova
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  Side FX (2025) author(s): Irina Österberg published in: Research Catalogue
  Across diverse mediums and form, the ‘human’ body, however transient, remains my main subject of events. What is seen, in the eyes of my mind, take place on surface, lens, material, and morph with one another, with the living moving body, disfiguring each other and reconfiguring themselves after consumption. Embodied and disembodied appearances, reflect on the visceral and urgent presence of the human, live, body. At the start, the notion of mirror: a constant ever-changing image that is formed and deformed as each breath brings life to the body. Different media such as drawing, photography, printmaking, painting, voice, word, sound and video, interrelate with as output a universe of heterogeneous appearances, each with a common denominator: movement of the body and movement of the soul, between the gestural expression of charcoal drawing, the analogue and digital/post-produced sounds, still and moving images, to the carefully crafted and re-elaborated copper plates delivering prints. At the moment these are called Side Effects, each one a bi-product of the previous step in the process of feedback loop. “anthropomorphs”; two dimensional images derived from the superimposition of drawing and moving body (drawing>photo>painting>print) “hesitations”; the more visceral exploration of embodied voice-movement integration, exploring frequencies and resonances of vocal output rooted within the organs of the body “ghosts”; are the anthropomorphs restituted a third dimension. Sculptures rendered independent to move again, suspended in space, relating to nothing but to their history and to one another. “multiplicity”; anonymous portraits overlapped and stop-motion animated, searching to grasp the ever-changing nature of (one)(multiple)self, faced with memory and its loss, ancient stranger twins, imagined encounters or the union of multiplicity as one.
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  Sound Body (2025) author(s): Zornitsa Stoyanova published in: Research Catalogue
  Sound Body is a project created by Zornitsa Stoyanova(BUL/USA) and Peter Sciscioli (USA), with an international cast of artists. The project was created over 8 workshops and rehearsal days in Sofia, Bulgaria. This is a written description of the project done specifically for a Master's degree assignment.
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