Becoming Monika: An Exploration of a World between the Self, Other, I and We

Anna Chrtková

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Becoming Monika: An Exploration of a World between the Self, Other, I and We (2025)

Anna Chrtková

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In a hyper-individualised, market-driven neoliberal world where everyone is considered responsible for their own success and happiness, the notion of a common or collectively lived future seems either naive or — given the Eastern and Central European experiences of failed state socialism — totalitarian. To this, the natural and social sciences offer a counter-hypothesis: We already are interconnected in terms of biological matter, ecosystemic relations, climate systems, shared societal infrastructure, and even global financial markets. Socialised as individuals, though, we lack the tools to refer, relate, and act towards this reality. Monika, besides being an organically formed name for the artistic collective of me and my two artist colleagues (Matyáš Grimmich and Karolína Schön), is a lens and shared body through which I offer entry to this framework. This exposition follows an ongoing performative research project on models of relating — becoming ‘we’ on the planetary, social, and political scale. The research centres on concepts of the expanded self and politics of unity, focusing on testing existing models or developing new methods of becoming more-than-just-self. Its participatory installations, video works, workshops, and research performances were tested and presented in residency and gallery spaces. These outcomes are organised around three strategies — object and its use; situation and its record; story and its act of telling. Methodically, the exposition (and henceforth the whole research) uses poetic and prosaic language to address people as individual selves and poetically suggest what if we perform the multividual, rather than uphold the individual. This approach hopes to build affective relation towards the reality of a shared planet (Latour 2018), where all entities are connected and interdependent, with agency emerging from in-between, not from a particular ‘one’. Download Accessible PDF

type	research exposition
keywords	Performance art, visual art, scenography, collective identity, relationships architecture, collective practice, autofiction
date	15/07/2025
published	15/07/2025
last modified	15/07/2025
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
copyright	Anna Chrtková
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2310857/2339497
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2310857
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	35. 35

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