Kyriaki Goni. Portal

Kyriaki Goni
The Portal or Let’s Stand Still for the Whales, 2020
Single channel video, colour, sound, 6΄ 11΄΄
Courtesy of the artist

Her video The Portal or Let’s Stand Still for the Whales addresses an imaginary, future inhabitant of the Earth. It speaks of the intensity of the climate and humanitarian crisis, and the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis, such as biometric surveillance and the mass deterritorialisation of labour and human communication. It advocates for the necessity to create new languages of understanding, care and proximity towards human and non-human beings. As ecosystems within ecosystems, the work argues for the necessity to create new languages of understanding, care and proximity towards other humans and other-than-humans.

Kyriaki Goni’s work explores issues such as the power of information, alternative digital networks, the construction of the digital self, and the human – machine interaction. Working across disciplines and technologies, she creates expanded, multi-layered installations. She connects the local with the global by critically examining questions of surveillance, distributed networks and infrastructures, ecosystems, as well as human and other than human relations.

The artwork was commissioned by PCAI in 2020 on the occasion of the online exhibition Anthropocene on hold.

Βiography

Kyriaki Goni was born in Athens where she lives and works.  She holds a BA in Visual Arts and an MA in Digital Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts) as well as graduate and postgraduate degrees on Social and Cultural Anthropology in Athens and in Leiden, Netherlands. Working across disciplines and technologies, she creates expanded, multi-layered installations. She connects the local with the global by critically examining questions of surveillance, distributed networks and infrastructures, ecosystems, as well as human and other than human relations. She writes and teaches frequently as part of her practice.  Recent solo shows include:  SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen; KVOST Art Collection Telekom, Berlin; Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens; Drugo More, Rijeka; Aksioma, Ljubljana. Group exhibitions include 2nd Warsaw Biennale, 8th Gherdeina Biennale, Ars Electronica, 24th Thessaloniki Photobiennale, 13th Shanghai Biennale, Transmediale2020, and the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial. Prizes and fellowships include: Allianz Kulturstiftung and Bertelmanns Stiftung, Ars Electronica and Telekom, the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, Greece, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

https://kyriakigoni.com/

 

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