Katja Banović is an architect and designer based in Pula, Croatia with completed projects in Australia, Europe and Canada. This collection hopes to showcase a variety of work in the fields of architecture, set design, digital art and performative arts. The presented series of works move between the satirical and the pragmatic - the narrative of the experience and the logistical of the constructed. The basis of current explorations revolves around nature of framing and horison, with the focus on challenging experiences and contrasting narratives. In other words, the role of design in a character's capacity to build a narrative by examining and engaging with the displayed object.
Some fun things (it's just a collection + some personal reflections): mimetic behaviour, cognitive capitalism (Maurizio Lazarato | Signs and Machines ) systematic internal spawning as revolution (Judith Butler) “aporia of hospitality” hospitality and ownership don't go hand in hand (Derrida) through cognition we escape uniqueness ( Hannah Arendt, Colomina) but then how does it work with Unheimlich? familiarity as the overlay of knowledge maps (it's a maze). Killing = reducing to consistency (Freud)continuous fragmentation is good. Fences and walls feed into our illusion of privacy (Hannah Arendt)(as the public space is where meaning continually appears and fades everything is some form of public; Rosalyn, Žižek) Phantom public, phantom spheres (Deutsche Rosalyn) Hejduk's Masques, Non - Kartesian grid, overlapping areas, boundaries and movements. Plurality of assemblages and paths. Parralel realms. How subjective is typecasting really. parasitic, unbounded, phantom public (Lippmann), tax bubbles, hollow facades, fragments, familiarity cores, the uncommon plane, piranesian space, parallax, horizon. Actor network theory (Keller Easterling) and the zone as a double. Sprezzatura? The amorphous world seeing clear shadows (Henry Lefebvre). The image of an empty place (Lefort). Dialectic. A poem is not a poem but another poem (Morton). Unification vs. separation (Deluze). Iceberg houses, infrastructural pressure points, the new commuters belt, pied-a-terre urbanism, selling the citizenship, basementing, bedroom tax, plutocracy. The black hole, the fourth wall. Theatre of machines. static vs dynamic infrastructure. The home is a fata-morgana (Adorno). Subversive Signals vs freedom to choose what is always the same (Adorno, Benjamin. We are ''haunted'' by the very things we put in our homes. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale. This container is an implosion (Baudrillard, Dick). Room of One's Own (Virginia Wolf). 7 types of ambiguity. patterns. The obscure and the hidden, the sense of relatability. The space to breathe vs.curated high density. Changing characters, revealing narratives.High contrasts.