Markéta Dolejšová

Feral ways of making sense with more-than-human worlds
Czech Republic °1986
research interests: multispecies sensemaking, embodied practice, feral ways of knowing, feral ecologies, more-than-human
affiliation: The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
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I’m a practice-based researcher experimenting with co-creative, embodied and sensory experiences in multispecies contexts. My recent focus has been on ferality and feral eco-systems, exploring what relations, intuitions, and ways of knowing can emerge in the liminal spaces between the wild and the domesticated, the familiar and unknown, the serendipitous and intentional. I’m currently affiliated as an Assistant Professor at The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague where I act as the Head of Doctoral Research Department. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Aalto University - School of Arts, Design and Architecture (2020-24). I co-founded several art and design research initiatives, including the Uroboros festival, the Open Forest collective, and the Feeding Food Futures network 


 

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  • A taste of big data on the global dinner table (2015) author(s): Markéta Dolejšová published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This exposition discusses artistic appropriations of issues related to the contemporary global food agenda and the possible impact of these interventions on the public’s food-related mindset. It begins with an overview of some of the most pressing concerns about the current state of global food production and continues by discussing how these concerns are affected by social networking technologies and online collaborations. Social initiatives and food activists, as well as artists and designers, have become interested in communal bottom-up efforts to refine the global flow of food commodities. The second chapter of this exposition discusses recent examples of contemporary food art/design works. Beside a theoretical overview, the author presents her own food art/design project ‘HotKarot & OpenSauce’ and offers an insight into the field from the perspective of a researcher-as-practitioner. The exposition aims to raise important questions about the potential of participatory art/design initiatives and critically address current global food issues, hence supporting consumers’ general awareness of what ends up on their plates, how it gets there, and under what circumstances.
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