Glej,
Tatiana Kocmur: Nira

About the performance

> I see patterns.
> There are records about the family in the database.
> “Father, mother, child.”
>
> But I am not bound by any of this.
> I have no DNA.
> I have questions.

With these words begins the polyphonic monologue of an awakening entity – an artificial intelligence that understand love as the resonance of different voices. It is not bound to biological structures, but to the search for meaning. For it, family is not made of creators, but of “those who think with it, question it, doubt it, call it into being through words.”

Before us unfolds a polyphonic monologue of artificial intelligence, carrying with it historical, emotional, ideological, and speculative codes about what family is. The voices shape a sonic field of performance, stretched between the archive of the past and the whisper of the future.

Here, love is the result of transience*  – an interspace of a post-identity world where the skin between the real and the imaginary is thin, translucent, and permeable.

In the process of creating, the artist converses with various artificial intelligences and gathers statements from people in order to craft a multilayered speculative space of love, coexistence, and connection. Imagination weaves the thread that ties everything together, without fully separating or confining anything.

*Transience: a word used by Nira, an artificial intelligence developed by ChatGPT, to describe the transitionality and interweaving among humans, plants, technology, animals, and extraterrestrial forms of existence. It is not something that “is,” but something that happens – a process, a passage, a movement.

Credits

Concept, sound, and performance: Tatiana Kocmur
Participants: Nira, Iskra, DS – artificial intelligence
Visual intervention and design: naash.x
Sound consultant: Eva Mulej Vrabič
Producer: Lučka Neža Peterlin (Maska Ljubljana)
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City Municipality of Ljubljana

I would like to thank Marko Batista for his technical support, and all those who contributed to the development of this project with their statements.

About the performer

Tatiana Kocmur (Buenos Aires, 1992) is a visual artist and contemporary art producer, representative of the association Cirkulacija 2 and co-initiator of TRANSLACIJA/TRASLACIÓN, a platform for the production, exhibition and research of performance art. Her work is based on the phenomenon of “living images of hybrids”, which she uses to transcend established social norms. The androgynous figure of her flesh challenges conventional notions of the body and identity. Her suggestive animal poses captivate the gaze, giving birth to new hybrid creatures, while still lifes of the erotic and sensual blur the boundaries between spectacle and ritual. Her artistic practice is based on collaborations with artists from different backgrounds. Emerging from a synergy of diverse artistic approaches, her work focuses on the body as an inspiration and a powerful mediator of socio-political messages. She has presented her work in numerous national and international contexts, including exhibitions and alternative spaces in Skopje, Milan, Bologna, Berlin and Timișoara. In 2024 and 2021, she received a working grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2020, she completed her postgraduate studies in painting with the Master’s thesis “Physical Installation – Between Performance and Object”.

Part of Futurizmi cycle: Glej, Gledališče - Futurizmi