Bianca Tainsh. Juried Artist
SAE
SAE
Artist Statement
Transcapology encapsulates an exquisite exploration, resurrecting moments of elemental interconnection with nature and place. As an endeavour to circumvent the highly fabricated paradigms of contemporary human existence, artist Bianca Tainsh traverses the shores of Lake Weyba in Australia to observe and coalesce with this sublime, but contentious biosphere.
Entangled in a timescape of natural and first people’s histories, and more recently, colonial violence and capitalism, Lake Weyba presents a decisive space to consider psychogeography and the relationship that contemporary Australians and other colonialist societies have with the land.
Reconfigured for a digital plain, Weyba becomes a multiplicity of representations that distort time and perspective. A disembodied soundtrack adds to this disorientation, and a serene landscape becomes unstable terrain, ominous and intangible. Dark actions, commodification and existential crisis can be detected behind a façade of ‘paradise’, the human ideal used to contain and exploit nature.
The title of this work suggests a concept constructed around perceptions of inner and outer landscapes, the transdimensional aspects of site psychogeography, and the transformative effects of natural phenomena or what is humanly perceived as time. As an ‘ology’, this concept becomes a form of practice.
About the artists
I am an open-disciplinary artist, based on Lake Weyba, Gubbi Gubbi country. Through a hybrid practice of contemporary art and fluid forms of ecological activities I explore issues such as the cyber-saturated human’s disconnect from the natural world and the search for spirituality in the epoch of digital culture. In my current work, Neo-animism forms the trope for artefacts and rituals that unveil new forms of coexistence and being.
My work takes the form of video, digital and semi-traditional media, assemblages, and live art.
In my last project I collaborated with a mycologist to create Myc-a, a multispecies biome of flora and microfauna connected by a network of mycorrhizal fungi, a paragon for diversity and mutuality. A new collaboration with AI researchers explores the possibilities of converging the spectrum of Earth’s intelligences – human, more-than-human and artificial. Can mutual endeavour and respectful interaction create an alliance of inter-intelligence stewardship in this epoch of corporatised AI and ecological demise?
I am a prize-winning artist, exhibiting in Australia and Germany. As an advocate of Art for Change, I have presented a TEDx talk and webinars. I have a 1st Class Honours from RMIT University, and postgraduate studies in Arts & Community Engagement at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Credits: Ms Bianca Tainsh