3D animation, audio recording, song, 6′22″
musical cooperation / song performance: Zosia Hołubowska
Taking advantage of SF (speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, science fiction, scientific fact) tools, Ernest Borowski is projecting a vision of the world on the brink of an all-embracing collapse of life and system organisations as we know them – a world wherein the capitalist organisation of (over)production-based existence is bereft of all meaning. On the other hand, the same narrative may be interpreted as imminent (in time), allowing an insight into co-sensibilities occurring just beyond our line of sight.
In his artistic practice, Borowski frequently references queering ecologies, examining ties between nature, biology and sexuality – and queer theory. Covert core pillars include a song prepared in collaboration with Zosia Hołubowska / Mala Herba, with interwoven motifs of labour criticism (in economic terms), queer closeness and inter-species tenderness – components of radical and spec- ulative visions of the future. The artist expands his narrative to include more-than-human entities, inviting us to consider them a part of our queer family.
The Covert’s visual layer comprises series of virtual micro-landscapes, local settlers more-than-human, an imagery of species existent and imagined. Borowski embeds them in pre-renovation architecture of the Arsenal Gallery power station, approaching it as if a source of memory, of modified data, its traces, while present, well concealed. The artist believes that such images help accentuate the very essence of transformation occurring in human-and-non-human ecosystems.
