Lenka Vesela

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Czech Republic °1980
research interests: Feminist Technoscience, Queer Ecologies, Synthetic Bodies, Synthetic Knowledges, Cyborg Becoming, Artistic Research, Anthropocene Feminisms, Anti-Toxic Action, Posthuman Feminisms, Material Feminisms
affiliation: PhD researcher, Department of Theory and History of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
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Lenka Veselá is an assistant professor at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. Her art-based research practice concerns “synthetic bodies” (bodies emerging by synthesis—interconnected with and dependent on the broader collectivity of human and nonhuman life that exists within a shared environment) and “synthetic bodies of knowledges” (knowledges synthesized across multiple sites). She is a lecturer, organizer, and feminist thinker advocating for inclusive forms of transdisciplinary knowledge production.

https://www.vut.cz/en/people/lenka-vesela-9603

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  • synthetic bodies: protocols for intra-acting (2024) author(s): Lenka Vesela published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    Our bodies are porous entities that interconnect with and depend on the broader collectivity of human and nonhuman life that exists within a shared environment. Using the figuration of synthetic bodies, this exposition aims to examine the relationships in which we are enmeshed as our bodies absorb and excrete chemicals. With a focus on involuntary exposure to industrially manufactured chemicals (as opposed to exposure to naturally occurring chemicals or voluntary experimentation with chemicals of all types), this exposition invites readers to learn about the chemicals to which we are exposed and by which we are affected. With the ubiquity of chemicals in the environment, who are we becoming? How do chemicals affect us and how do we interact with them? How can we live well with chemicals in spite of their potential to harm? Adopting a decolonial feminist, posthumanist, and new materialist approach and embracing queer ecological sensibilities, this exposition develops protocols for embodied and materially embedded research practices that trace the effects of exposure to chemicals in everyday life. In so doing, it aims to demonstrate how we might build resilience through encounters with toxicity, contamination, and impurity. Download Accessible PDF
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