МЕТА-БАШТА – виртуелна интерактивна изложба у јавном простору

Abstract

Doktorski umetnički rad Meta-bašta je projekat koji se bavi nestajanjem biljnog sveta kao tihim, postepenim i često neopaženim procesom savremene ekološke krize. Polazeći od biljnih vrsta koje su nestale na teritoriji Srbije, rad ispituje načine na koje se odsustvo biljnog sveta može učiniti perceptivno prisutnim u savremenom prostoru. Umesto reprezentacije ili pokušaja rekonstrukcije prirode, Meta-bašta artikuliše gubitak kao centralnu tačku značenja. Umetnički rad zasniva se na kombinaciji fizičkog i digitalnog aspekta. Biljke su u prostoru predstavljene kao duhovi, dok se putem proširene realnosti uvodi dodatni sloj u kome se njihovo prisustvo pojavljuje privremeno i uslovljeno pažnjom posmatrača. Ovakva struktura omogućava percepciju rada i bez digitalnog posredovanja, dok se aktiviranjem proširene realnosti uvodi procesualnost, vremenska ograničenost i zavisnost biljnog sveta od ljudskog delovanja. Posmatrač time ne zauzima pasivnu poziciju, već postaje (inter)aktivni učesnik rada. Teorijski okvir projekta oslanja se na kritiku antropocentrizma, posthumanističke i ekohumanističke perspektive, kao i na koncept „slepila za biljke“, koji ukazuje na kulturne obrasce zanemarivanja biljnog sveta. Biljke se u ovom radu ne posmatraju kao dekorativni ili funkcionalni elementi prostora, već kao nosioci ekološkog pamćenja i svedoci prekida kontinuiteta između prirodnih sistema i savremenog okruženja. Rad je vezan za lokalni kontekst Srbije, u kome je nestajanje flore naučno evidentirano, ali slabo prisutno u svakodnevnom iskustvu. Meta-bašta je oblikovana kao vizuelno-prostorna celina zasnovana na promenljivom odnosu između fizičkog i digitalnog sloja rada. U njoj se narativi odsustva i prisustva koriste kao sredstvo preispitivanja odnosa između znanja o ekološkoj krizi, i njenog iskustvenog doživljaja. Umesto da ponudi odgovore ili rešenja, rad otvara prostor za razmišljanje o pažnji, odgovornosti i mogućim oblicima drugačijeg odnosa prema biljkama koje sve češće ostaju nevidljive u savremenom životnom okruženju.

The project Meta-Garden is a doctoral artistic work that addresses the disappearance of plant life as a silent, gradual, and often unnoticed process of the contemporary ecological crisis. Focusing on plant species that have disappeared from the territory of Serbia, the project explores ways in which the absence of plant life can be made perceptually present within contemporary space. Rather than representing or attempting to reconstruct nature, Meta- Garden articulates loss as a central carrier of meaning. The artwork is based on a combination of physical and digital aspects. Plants are presented in the space as ghosts, while augmented reality introduces an additional layer in which their presence appears temporarily, and is conditioned by the viewer’s attention. This structure allows the work to be perceived without digital mediation, while the activation of augmented reality introduces processuality, temporal limitation, and the dependence of plant life on human action. The viewer thus does not occupy a passive position, but becomes an (inter)active participant in the work. The theoretical framework of the project draws on critiques of anthropocentrism, posthumanist and ecohumanist perspectives, as well as the concept of “plant blindness,” which points to cultural patterns of neglecting plant life. In this work, plants are not understood as decorative or functional elements of space, but as carriers of ecological memory and witnesses to a disruption in the continuity between natural systems and contemporary environments. The project is situated within the local context of Serbia, where the disappearance of flora is scientifically documented, but remains weakly present in everyday experience. Meta-Garden is shaped as a visual-spatial entity based on a variable relationship between the physical and digital layers of the work. Within this framework, narratives of absence and presence are used as a means of rethinking the relationship between knowledge of the ecological crisis and its experiential perception. Rather than offering answers or solutions, the project opens a space for reflection on attention, responsibility, and possible forms of a different relationship toward the plants that are increasingly becoming invisible in the contemporary living environments.