Nastassja Simensky
Image credit: The Long Count, Nastassja Simensky
Nastassja Simensky is an artist with an interest in critical heritage and the unevenly distributed impacts of global energy regimes and extractive processes. Nastassja often works collaboratively with artists and non-artists to make authored and co-authored artworks. During Making Time, Nastassja will develop ‘Dust, Static and Feedback Loops’, a new body of research seeded through a residency with Artica in Svalbard in 2024. Research will consider how the transmission of aeolian dust, environmental toxicity and static/noise might operate both as objects of scientific scrutiny and as poetic devices through which to explore the material and political composition of atmospheric infrastructures and their unevenly distributed effects.
Drawing on the history of dialectical and materialist librettos, scripts and radio plays, Nastassja will meet with academics in literary criticism and eco-poetics to explore experimental literary forms as critical artistic materials. This will be supported by discussions with academics in environmental toxicity, arctic geopolitics and defence, and radio transmission.
Selected commissions and residencies include: The New Present Tense, Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research (GR); Artica Residency, Svalbard (NO); Postscript of Silence, McaM, Shanghai (CN); A Slip of Telecine, with Coated Spirits/FADE Radio; Receiver, Focal Point Gallery, (UK); Art and Archaeology residency at West Dean (UK); Critical Disturbance at Crafting a Sonic Urbanism: Listening to Non-Human Life, (FR).