Bianca Tainsh
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2024
I am an open-disciplinary artist, based on Lake Weyba, Gubbi Gubbi country. Through a hybrid practice of contemporary art and fluid forms of ecological activities I explore issues such as the cyber-saturated human’s disconnect from the natural world and the search for spirituality in the epoch of digital culture. In my current work, Neo-animism forms the trope for artefacts and rituals that unveil new forms of coexistence and being.
My work takes the form of video, digital and semi-traditional media, assemblages, and live art.
In my last project I collaborated with a mycologist to create Myc-a, a multispecies biome of flora and microfauna connected by a network of mycorrhizal fungi, a paragon for diversity and mutuality. A new collaboration with AI researchers explores the possibilities of converging the spectrum of Earth’s intelligences – human, more-than-human and artificial. Can mutual endeavour and respectful interaction create an alliance of inter-intelligence stewardship in this epoch of corporatised AI and ecological demise?
I am a prize-winning artist, exhibiting in Australia and Germany. As an advocate of Art for Change, I have presented a TEDx talk and webinars. I have a 1st Class Honours from RMIT University, and postgraduate studies in Arts & Community Engagement at the Victorian College of the Arts.
