MA Forum in collaboration with LIO: Cathryn Klasto
In this MA Forum we welcome artist and researcher Cathryn Klasto. This talk will share some working insight into Klasto’s ongoing book project ‘Space Trekking’. The book is a collection of visual essays which tries to reveal the relationship between artistic research, ethics and interstellar spatial phenomena storied within the Star Trek universe.
As Cathryn says of the project: ‘visual essays, artistic research, ethics, interstellar spatial phenomena, Star Trek. This is no doubt a risky combination of things to try and bring together in a way that is both understandable and useful. Therefore, this book project is intentionally designed as a research challenge; designed to evade my current knowledge, to force me into the unknown. I am not interested in evidencing what I already know. Instead, I want the making of this book to destablise what I think I know. As a result of this methodological design, this project never allows me to forget that risk brings the possibility of potential and failure simultaneously.’
Cathryn Klasto (she/they) is a transdisciplinary theoretician who operates within the field of critical spatial practice. Their theoretical production operates as a critical practice that takes both textual and material form. Although they do not produce artworks, they do work with prototype modeling as an investigative method of artistic research. Their scholarly interest is focused on interiors and processes of interiority, notably those operating within technological and conceptual infrastructures. Their work seeks to analyze how these interiors and their subsequent processes influence and produce social, ethical, and emotional behaviors. Klasto is currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Leonard Nimoy as the character Spock performing the iconic Vulcan salute from Star Trek
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MA Forum in collaboration with LIO: Cathryn Klasto
In this MA Forum we welcome artist and researcher Cathryn Klasto. This talk will share some working insight into Klasto’s ongoing book project ‘Space Trekking’. The book is a collection of visual essays which tries to reveal the relationship between artistic research, ethics and interstellar spatial phenomena storied within the Star Trek universe.
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