The documentary video essay focuses on the relationship between human and beetle. It employs a science-art research approach as a platform that merges facts with imagination. The main interest is here a body as a moving medium, shared by both humans and beetles. The body is perceived as a space of interpenetration, where imagination pushes its perceived boundaries, opens up new identities, and reconsiders the limits of interspecies equality. The research takes place in a forest environment, where performative études create a documentary voyeurism of a hybrid being inspired by the life cycle of the toxic violet oil beetle (Meloe violaceus). The videoperformance explores the body as a form that is constantly changing and reshaping itself through contact with its surroundings. The work highlights play as a key tool for forming interspecies relationships, empathy, and new modes of understanding. In play, nothing is necessary, yet everything plays a role.

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ESC.
Exhibition of Diploma Works.
Department of Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
The exhibition was held at BPM, Štefánikova 35, Bratislava, Slovakia.

A theoretical essay that contextualizes the practical part of the diploma project — exploring themes, references, and methodologies behind the process.

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