Inter/Trans-Disciplinarity as a Platform for Seeking Universal Common Ground: From Speculation to Pragmatism Through Kristina Pulejkova’s Wedding Route Art Project
Inter/Trans-Disciplinarity as a Platform for Seeking Universal Common Ground: From Speculation to Pragmatism Through Kristina Pulejkova’s Wedding Route Art Project

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present one specific case study of the inter/trans-disciplinarityand inter/trans-mediality in Macedonian contemporary art – a project of the young Macedonianartist Kristina Pulejkova. The project, titled Wedding Route, is an immersive installationthat deals with the overlapping of knowledge gained from the natural sciences and arts, whilealso questioning politics, ecology, technology.Wedding Route deals with the life cycle and migration of the critically endangered Europeaneel. No matter where they live, once sexually mature, they turn into a silvery color andmake their final arduous journey back to Sargasso Sea, driven by their instinct. Lake Ohrid(the largest in Macedonia) is currently being artificially populated with eels, as this animalhas been unable to migrate into the lake’s waters since 1962 when the first hydroelectric damwas built. Globally, the European eel population faces rapid declination, and its story is verymuch that of man-made borders, overfishing and death caused by habitat decline and climatechange, hence preventing its millions of years old migration back to the Sargasso Sea.Through an inter and trans-disciplinary approach that combines art, science, and technology,working with moving pictures, sound, and installation, Pulejkova aims to build subjectivenarratives relying on scientific data and principles. The project and its outcome is a pureexample of speculative pragmatism, since through theoretical exploration and artistic visualsimulation of the location and the appearance of the act of eel spawning (since scientists haveso far only speculated on the occurrence of this mysterious event) she offers a pragmatic discussionon ecology, migration, and politics in general.

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