Artist: Monika Tobel
Monika Tobel a London based Hungarian multidisciplinary artist exploring nature-culture and species barriers. I am interested in breaking down these barriers, mainly by devising exercises that help me to de-learn and re-learn prescribed ideals of how to relate to the environment and its inhabitants, in order to develop a new non-hierarchical way of being in the world. I investigate modes of moral distinctions that enable us to commit atrocities against the signified other, be it race, gender, or species. I am intrigued by the possibilities of non-lingual communication between different entities; the information exchange via scents, sounds, touch.
Originally a painter, I have worked in a multitude of media throughout the years. Due to a conscious decision to stop making unnecessary objects I moved towards non-material processes such as video, performance and sound. My practice mainly consists of simple exercises of listening and interacting with multispecies collaborators, realized in performance and video form alongside installations. >>>
