#end_of_empire

An interactive, site specific large scale installation of knitted photographs with incorporated touch sensors and an AI generated musical score. The project explores themes central to the artist, Eva Sajovic’s work: colonialism, the climate and ecological crises, the role of the artist in imagining alternative futures, and the need for collaboration with the “more-than-human”, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). By taking symbols of imperial power, commonly set in imposing stone, and translating them into soft fabrics to be interacted with, the project alludes to a future transformed. The work is a collection of shared visual, tactile and sonic experiences that the community from across Nelson has gathered and reflected upon.