Collision of Art and Ants Worlds - a conversation with Jussi Parikka and Jaroslaw Czarnecki.

Collision of Art and Ant Worlds is a conversation between curator and scholar Joasia Krysa with artists Elvin Flamingo and a scholar Jussi Parikka. The Symbiosity of Creation is a work by Polish artist Elvin Flamingo, that started in 2012 and is intended to continue for at least twenty years until approximately 2034. It was first proposed as doctoral thesis and has since been exhibited at WRO Media Art Biennale 2015, Wroclaw, Poland, where the project received a special Critics and Editors of Art Magazines Award. The work was subsequently included in Collective Making (2015-2016), the exhibition series developed by Joasia Krysa during her tenure as Artistic Director of Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (until summer 2015) to explore new aesthetic possibilities for making and doing that extended beyond the (anthropo)centrism of the mainstream art world and ideas of artistic autonomy. The Symbiosity of Creation was presented in cooperation with WRO Art Centre. In this conversation, Joasia Krysa (JK), the curator of the exhibition series, talks to Elvin Flamingo (EF) about his collaboration with ants. They are also joined by Jussi Parikka (JP), whose book Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (from 2010) is published in Polish later this year. Insect Media was awarded the 2012 Anne Friedberg prize for Innovative Scholarship, by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.