Patrícia Chamrazová

Patrícia Chamrazová (she/her) is a media artist. She comes from Slovakia and is currently based in Vienna. She received her Bachelor's (2020) and Master's degree (2022) in Intermedia at Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. She received her Diploma (2024) in Transmedia Art at University of Applied Arts Vienna. She worked as a mediator for Kunsthalle Bratislava (2017 - 2018), in production for the digital arts festival Sensorium (2018 - 2019), festival Biela Noc (2019 - 2022). She actively participates in various international exhibitions, projects and residencies. In 2021, she co-founded the civil society “aj aj” along with Nela Pučeková, Viktória Revická, Nina Vidovencová, Lucia Kupcová, and Tatiana Takáčová.

In her artistic practice she is shifting from abstract to organic, from conceptual to intuitive, from science to metaphysics. She works across digital art, audiovisual installations, virtual and augmented reality. Her project-based and often site-specific practice is an allure with evoking ambivalent embodiment, intimacy with complicity, and reconstruction of her everyday experience. Her goal is to push the audience to deeper moment of listening to inspire those who see her work to look more carefully, beyond distractions at the world around them to question their present day experience.

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Research

My project transcends the idea of a symbiosis within the concept of better futures in posthuman realities. It connects to the presence of anthropocentrism in the 21st century and deconstructs the notion of species-based supremacy. How can each new sense nurture the connective tissue that binds the human and the nonhuman in an increasingly intimate dance? With multiple theories, ideas, and critical analysis, I search for the answers to these and other questions.

My project aims to focus on the ways in which being “posthuman” feels very “human”. This approach underscores the potential, the similarities, and the differences of symbiosis on various scales. It poetically speculates on more-than-human sensing experiences, and goes beyond its limitations.

Crucial inspiration for me is a recent research, which shows that the magnetic “sixth” sense that some animals possess likely stems from bacteria (Natan, et al. 2020). With this in mind I delve into the role of microorganisms such as bacteria or fungi in shaping speculative posthuman senses and symbiotic relationships embedded by the alterations that occur within our augmented biome.