About
Yurika is a multidisciplinary, research-driven artist who works across experimental film, writing and site-specific collaborative workshops. Their work documents and experiments with how we both individually and collectively maintain a sense of agency against the backdrop of seemingly ‘untouchable’ economic, technological and political systems. They are concerned with tracing how these systems converse with our sense of subjectivity. Above all else, Yurika is drawn to highlighting conditions that stifle our abilities to act for ourselves and each other.
LAWLESS WORDS was a performance and collaborative writing experiment, where Yurika facilitated an undercover poetry writing session while they were working behind the bar of a busy restaurant. Participants/Guests who were stationed in various corners of the restaurant, were secretly passed prompts and instructions through the venues menus. The collaborators written notes were then swapped and patched together to form one single piece. This work strove to reclaim back creative time from Yurika's minimum wage job which barely financially sustained their life, let alone their arts practice.
Their latest film ‘Hypermedia Apophenia’ attempts to personalise and ‘make close’ the large scale surveillance project called ROXANNE (Real time netwOrk, teXt, and speaker Analytics for combatiNg orgaNized crimE), in order to critique it’s embedded, abstracted, top-down governance strategies. Yurika is currently researching Irish Neutrality and questions how we can envision the pursuit of peace beyond the rhetoric of military non-alliances.
Yurika is supported The Arts Council Ireland.
Yurika is a multidisciplinary, research-driven artist who works across experimental film, writing and site-specific collaborative workshops. Their work documents and experiments with how we both individually and collectively maintain a sense of agency against the backdrop of seemingly ‘untouchable’ economic, technological and political systems. They are concerned with tracing how these systems converse with our sense of subjectivity. Above all else, Yurika is drawn to highlighting conditions that stifle our abilities to act for ourselves and each other.
LAWLESS WORDS was a performance and collaborative writing experiment, where Yurika facilitated an undercover poetry writing session while they were working behind the bar of a busy restaurant. Participants/Guests who were stationed in various corners of the restaurant, were secretly passed prompts and instructions through the venues menus. The collaborators written notes were then swapped and patched together to form one single piece. This work strove to reclaim back creative time from Yurika's minimum wage job which barely financially sustained their life, let alone their arts practice.
Their latest film ‘Hypermedia Apophenia’ attempts to personalise and ‘make close’ the large scale surveillance project called ROXANNE (Real time netwOrk, teXt, and speaker Analytics for combatiNg orgaNized crimE), in order to critique it’s embedded, abstracted, top-down governance strategies. Yurika is currently researching Irish Neutrality and questions how we can envision the pursuit of peace beyond the rhetoric of military non-alliances.
Yurika is supported The Arts Council Ireland.