JUMPING OVER A BONFIRE BLINDFOLDED

how zero becomes two

The system simultaneously demands self-expression and processes only what matches its existing patterns. Between these two demands a gap opens. [...] Hold the mask from inside without coinciding with it. Remain present at the gap. [...] For some bodies, the imposed shape does not fit, the friction does not die down, and withdrawal is not available. Something is held inside that does not go numb. [...] The body that cannot be processed holds in that very illegibility a knowledge the system cannot generate from within itself.

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Marina Blinova

Marina Blinova is a Sakartvelo-based artist working with AI, computer games, and interactive installations. Their practice explores how global systems shape perception, attention, and collective memory—particularly under conditions of surveillance, dictatorship, and information warfare. Blinova is a graduate of the Rodchenko Art School (Russia) and a certificate student at The New Centre for Research & Practice.

__frrrrrr

__frrrrrr is a sound and transdisciplinary artist, musician, performer, cultural researcher, curator, and activist working with themes of reality versions and ruptures in it, death, memory, corporeal and cyber sensualities, their interactions and intersections, political agency, differentiation (if there’s any) of self, others and social.