Video

8 Dec 2022

Marija Bozinovska Jones

Exploring the connections and limitations of humans with technology, Marija Bozinovska Jones walks us through the objects and spaces that inspire her collaborative work.

London-based artist Marija Bozinovska Jones’ practice reaches beyond language. In her work Beginningless Mind, Bozinovska Jones interacts with plants – thinking with and through them to engage the sense of taste – to reimagine intelligence and knowledge as embodied experiences. Here, we learn more about her mind-melting experiments in interconnectedness as she invites us into her home, studio and recent exhibition.

Artwork Credits

Beginningless Mind (cell signals)
Beginningless Mind (sky dancers)
Beginningless Mind (rivers, rhythms, rituals)
Music score: 33EMYBW and J.G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Zygus)
Software development/ Natural Language Processing: Jayson Haebich
Voice: Natasha Kerry
Choreography: Franka Marlene Foth with FMKF collective
Dancers: Janan Laubscher, Camille Jackson, Steph B. Quinci, Dana Pajarillaga, Myriel Welling
Wardrobe: Ottolinger
Set: Studio Lilo
Commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices, University of Salford Art Collection and Somerset House Studios.
Installation view at The London Open 2022 at The Whitechapel Gallery, London

Beginningless Mind
Music score: 33EMYBW and J.G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Zygus)
Software development/ Natural Language Processing: Jayson Haebich
Voice: Natasha Kerry
Originally commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices, University of Salford Art Collection and Somerset House Studios. Produced by Abandon Normal Devices for AND Festival 2021 and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Psilocybin tea reading
Voiced by Hector Patch, MBJ and the Mycological Twist, reading excerpts from Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild and Other Stories" and "Lilith's Brood"

Fascia 181006190131
transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Fascia 171208180222 
Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam

[On Selfhood]  
MUTEK, Montreal 

[On Selfhood] 
(Inter-), Somerset House, London

All above:
Voice interface: MBJ Wetware 
Music and sound design: J.G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Zygus) 
Programming: Jayson Haebich

Film Credits

    A film by:

    Anna Dobos

    Digital producer:

    Helena Geilinger

    Executive producer:

    Estela Oliva

    Sound mixing:

    Rory Padfield