About
Yurika is a multidisciplinary, research-driven artist and writer who is currently based between Wicklow and Dublin, Ireland. Through films, performances, collaborative writing sessions and essays, Yurika continually and meticulously builds a case against Apathy, or conversely, their practice is deeply preoccupied with caring, despite. Their research contemplates, records, documents and experiments with how we both individually and collectively maintain a sense of agency against the backdrop of seemingly impervious and untouchable economic, technological and political systems. They often situate their works within structures or conditions that stifle our abilities to act for ourselves and each other.
LAWLESS WORDS was a performative and collective writing experiment, where Yurika facilitated an undercover, collaborative poetry writing session while they were working behind the bar of a busy restaurant. Participants, 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 by Mermaid Arts Centre Bray and The Arts Council Ireland.
Yurika is a multidisciplinary, research-driven artist and writer who is currently based between Wicklow and Dublin, Ireland. Through films, performances, collaborative writing sessions and essays, Yurika continually and meticulously builds a case against Apathy, or conversely, their practice is deeply preoccupied with caring, despite. Their research contemplates, records, documents and experiments with how we both individually and collectively maintain a sense of agency against the backdrop of seemingly impervious and untouchable economic, technological and political systems. They often situate their works within structures or conditions that stifle our abilities to act for ourselves and each other.
LAWLESS WORDS was a performative and collective writing experiment, where Yurika facilitated an undercover, collaborative poetry writing session while they were working behind the bar of a busy restaurant. Participants, 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 by Mermaid Arts Centre Bray and The Arts Council Ireland.