Danica Karaičić

In my research, I investigate spatial situations generated by participative installations that test the optical relationship between the three ‘skins’: the body, clothes and architecture. As practice-led research, the resulting creations of the artistic practice are treated as experiments and consequently called ‘art-experiments’. The base of the art-experiments are participatory spatial installations that focus on the dressed, sensing body in movement. In the experimental set-up, the bodies, clothes and architecture are used as constructive elements to explore the three-skin relationship. Each of the art-experiments asks a ‘what if’ question and propose procedures for three-skin exploration and ask new questions about space-making and experience-making. The art-experiments could be described as a probing polygon for the disruption of a default three-skin relationship. The art-experiments resulted in the creation of a new body–clothes–architectural assemblages where skins continuously transform and absorb each other. Instead of providing answers to the ‘what if’ questions, the experiments revealed essential ‘cross-sections’of the spatial situations resulting from the experiments: body-clothes, space-making, wearing space and sharing space.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts