Susanne M Winterling
SMW explores the sentient economy, cultures and transformations of elements and materializations. While forms and materials trace species and their social geopolitical context Winterling’s practice reflects upon aesthetic entanglements and power structures among human/ animal/ matter. Her time-based installations critically engage the representation of reality and investigate what pure information and form leaves out – including a sensual approach to media and material informed by embodiment before language and cognition and power as energy flows. Since 2018 the artistic research project Planetary sensing: navigation below the surface (www.planetary-sensing.com) circles with bioluminescence around social sculpture, environmental violence and ongoing colonial brutality to infrastructures of solidarity and conservation led by community. With the collective The Kalpana speculations on the desert were at the core of the practice, while the ongoing group Blockadia*Tiefsee invests with commoning and compost from the very local to the ocean. Her working group on matter antimatter and dark matter pursues ethics in quantum formations to anti colonial and antifascist hospitable spaces in the The unknown / unknowable.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Norway, Jamaica