Paula Malinowska

During her residency Paula Malinowska will develop a short 3D animated film created by using 3D animation, postproduced photogrammetric scans of sea sediments and AI generated imagery. She works with elements of speculative fiction and New Weird genre, which she merges with theories of posthumanism and queer ecology. The project is a proposal for a new origin mythology embodying new sensitivity and relationality towards the planet, more-than-human beings, and ourselves. It explores the intersections of planetary memory with cellular memory and a “memory” constructed by artificial intelligence. Computer generated imagery is used here as another kind of planetary memory, based on visual data present in virtual ecosystems.
Malinowska questions the existence of interspecies memory - could our memories and knowledge be placed outside the physical boundaries of our bodies? Could we share planetary memories? Where one body begins or ends? What happens with our memories after we die? Is death terminal or are we only metamorphing into something else? Theory of cellular memory is blurring the boundaries between the borders of bodies, disrupts linear time- sequential progression of past, present and future. Sedimented bodies of organisms embody the cyclic dance of death and life. As Walter Russel once said, no movement, once started, ends. The end of one octave is just the beginning of another. The end of one wave is just a beginning of another wave. The end of one life is the beginning of another life. There is no death, we cannot die. For planet we are and to planet we shall return.

Among with the development of her short film, which is a long term project, the artist will design 3D printed objects and experiment with 3D printing. These objects are planned as another output of the project in physical form.