Kristina Pulejkova

Kristina Pulejkova

ArtistLondon, United Kingdom
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Kristina Pulejkova

Kristina Pulejkova

ArtistLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Kristina Pulejkova is a multimedia artist whose works engage with science. In her art pieces, she builds a subjective narrative taken from principles and data from science fields such as astronomy, physics, geography and ecology. Her main subjects of interest are time, temporality, ecosystems and mechanisms, looking for connections between man and machine, the organic and mechanical. Having started her art education in her native Macedonia, she moved to Vienna, Austria where she received a Master of Arts degree in Painting and Experimental Animation at the University of Applied Arts in 2012. Shortly thereafter Kristina joined the MA Art and Science Course at Central Saint Martins in London, UK, from which she graduated in 2014. Combining the organic and the mechanical/digital is a key aspect of her art practice echoed through the interdisciplinary approach to her subjects. Her recent works deal with the complexity of ecological systems and mechanisms, further exploring the intersections of moving image and painting. Her latest body of work relates to time perception and timelessness, where stellar and particle sonifications are used in order to propose a new non-anthropocentric temporal narrative. Since 2013, Kristina is a part of the artist duo Owen – Pulejkova. The duo aims to create a series of artworks titled Switching Heads-sound mapping the [...]. This series brings together their skills as artists with their concerns about how climate change is affecting communities and environments around the globe.
Projects
  • My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath
    My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath'My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath' is a collaborative audio-visual project by visual artist Kristina Pulejkova and musician and Piano Magic member Glen Johnson. Both music and imagery are inspired by 70s science fiction films, especially films made by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. The animation uses images from the original pieces and aims to isolate them from their environment, putting them into different contexts and relations to other characters. Creating a moving image collage, the p
  • Abandoning Symmetry
    Abandoning SymmetryHD, 04:49, 2013 The piece explores the differences and similarities between the biological and industrial evolutions. Through an experimental approach, the footages act as single cells of complex organisms, trying to fit into the even bigger picture of an eco or industrial mechanism. With this work, I tried to question the paradox of our age where the industry tries to follow the systems and mechanisms of nature, yet fails to preserve its primary source of inspiration.
  • Carbon memories
    Carbon memoriesThis is the concept for my upcoming solo show awarded by the Museum for Contemporary Arts in Skopje, Macedonia. Funded by the Macedonia Arts Council, the show will be exhibited at the Museum for the Contemporary Arts in Skopje in 2016. The exhibition will be looking at the chemical and philosophical aspects of carbon, the element whose chemical basis is responsible for all known life. Seen through the journeys of a carbon atom, the exhibition will contain a series of works that depict the atom’s cyclical journey through the biosphere. As the carbon travels through the various eco systems, it gets repeatedly recycled and thus forming an endless loop. The question that the show poses is whether the carbon atom retains the memory of all its former beings and if so, do we as humans retain the molecular memories of all the carbon’s previous states. All the known elements are a result of stellar supernovas. After a supernova occurs, due to the powerful blast the newly formed elements are scattered in the universe in a form of stardust. The clustering of stardust creates planets such as ours, as well as all the life on it. Having in mind that we are all made of ancient building blocks, as we breathe, can we try and remember our molecular past? I would like to use the loop as a metaphor for the carbon cycles and stimulate the audiences to think about the life cycles. Also I would like to make people think about the fact that we are made of pieces that used to be rocks, plants and air and stars. Through the use of moving image, interactive installations and sound objects, I will create works that look at the carbon cycle and echo its previous journeys.
  • X (Automatic sequence)
    X (Automatic sequence)'X (automated sequence)' is a series of drawings that deal with the loss of memory or memory erosion. Memory erosion occurs during execution of automated tasks which provide no or little experience. In retrospect, those actions are not registered in our memory. Instead, our memory is a collection of fragments of actions that hold a high density of experience. By writing the x, I tend to record the automated sequence further exposing the fragmentation of memory.
  • Switching Heads - Sound mapping the Arctic
    Switching Heads - Sound mapping the ArcticSwitching Heads - sound mapping the Arctic is the first in an ongoing project by artist duo Holly Owen and Kristina Pulejkova. Environmentally un-intrusive sculpture, binaural sound technology and film come together to record the sights, sounds and stories of areas around the globe that are most at risk from the effects of our rapidly changing climate. Owen and Pulejkova have created a life-size mould of a head that can be stuffed with organic material found in a specific environment. The use of local material means the sculpture can be left in place to melt, crumble or decompose without adding or taking anything away from the area. This organic head holds a pair of binaural microphones that records the environmental and human sounds of the landscape in 360 degrees. Video captures the events in real time. Through this mixed-media work Switching Heads - sound mapping the Arctic transports the viewer through perspective sound, real-time moving image and tactile organic sculpture to areas worst affected by changes in our global climate. Engaging the senses, the project will draw upon the lived experience, encouraging audiences to act through feelings of empathy. In spring 2015 Owen and Pulejkova embarked on an art expedition to the island city of Tromsø situated between fjords at the upper most tip of Norway, deep within The Arctic Circle. They invited local people to share their stories, traditions and experiences of living in the Arctic Circle with a head cast in snow, whilst binaural microphones and film recorded the events. The final film work will be shown guerilla-style in Paris as part of the art and culture festival artCOP21 during the United Nations climate conferences in winter 2015. Through a city expedition they will carry their finished Arctic film and an individual pair of headphones on their backs as they walk through the city. In doing this they will bring the experience out to the public, inviting locals, tourists, climate concerned individuals as well as artists to switch places with the snow head to watch, listen and explore life in The Arctic Circle.
  • POINT OF VIEW (Organic Cartography)
    POINT OF VIEW (Organic Cartography)POINT OF VIEW is an installation art work made with four pieces of paintings, video projections and sound. The works are cartographic representations of 4 types of migrating animals. This is achieved by taking the microscopic patterns of the animals as the landscape, and the animals’ migration patterns as the networks or routes of the map. As all living beings transform through time and space, the maps in question will tend to undergo this same process much like unfrozen worlds in constant flux.
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Work history
    Artist
    I am a freelance visual artist based in London, Brickfield Studios [SPACE} Empson Street, E3
Skills
  • Film
  • Visual Arts
  • Environment
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Photoshop
  • Premiere Pro
  • After Affects
Education
    Art and Science
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    Painting and Experimental Animation
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Awards
    Solo Show the Museum For Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia, - awarded by the 11th young artists biennial in Skopje, Macedonia, organised by the Museum for Contemporary Arts
    The Biennial for young artists at the Museum for Contemporary Arts in Skopje Macedonia awards a solo show to two successful artists (one national and one international) note: the press link is taken from a Macedonian newspaper translated into English via Google translate. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=mk&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mkd.mk%2Fkultura%2Flikovna-umetnost%2Fkristina-pulejkova-nagradena-na-xi-bienale-na-mladi-umetnici-v-godina-so%3Ffb_action_ids%3D10153366173903850%26fb_action_types%3Dog.recommends&edit-text=&act=url
    Daniel Ford International Prize for Innovation, Central Saint Martins College
    http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/csm/2014/05/27/csm-show-one-2014-prizewinners/
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