MOTONATION
Jelena Visković
Part three of our New Weird mini series features Jelena Visković’s Motonation. This 9 minute extract shows us two societies, Happy Nation and The Grid, where we follow Čedo as he decides which group to join. This surrealist sci-fi examines the consequences of individual vs collective desires, referencing Yugoslav performance art from the 1980s, and tools of humour and weirding during Čedo’s journey.
Bio:
Jelena Visković is an artist born in 1989 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, raised in Belgrade, Serbia, and currently living and working in London. Her background is in software engineering and game development, and her work explores the role of gesture and play in relation to the creation and preservation of techno scientific, political and historical narratives. Her sculptures and moving image works incorporate animated, talking objects that make their way into technologically deterministic, seemingly inanimate systems. Borrowing from a playful, carnivalesque logic, these worlds become rebellious but approachable, attempting to resist the rigid environments of institutions, archives, libraries and databases.
You can read the full transcript of this episode here.