Produced within the Pilot Artists Residency (Lab)
Virtual installation, Newart.city
How to Prepare Yourself for Collapse emerged during the two-month Pilot Artists Residency and culminated in a spatial installation within Newart.city’s Residents World.
The work considers collapse not as catastrophe, but as condition. If falling can be anticipated, it can be composed. Memories, knowledge and aesthetic languages accumulated across time can be rearranged before impact.
Within a culture structured around super-performance and motivational positivism, falling is framed as error. This work repositions it as inevitability. Falling is more probable if one is already jumping.
Abandonment becomes a form of unintentional spiritual admission.
There is no clear distinction between the infinite spinning of Russian gymnasts and that of fallen figure skaters.
Sanjeshka reflects on the hazardous detachment of the contemporary subject from spirituality and from the unsaid.
Her practice seeks to formulate a language that operates as a form of escape - a Trojan horse within systems of hyper-productivity and hyper-positivism. The work often privileges inaction, hesitation and suspension, positioning them against the velocity of information culture.
Collapse, in this context, is not spectacle but quiet resistance.