Eva Bodo

Collective Territories — Intermediality and Interdisciplinarity

Eva Bodo – Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia

Abstract:

Art history has traditionally focused on specialization in specific media, such as photography, painting, or sculpture. However, what occurs when one examines the interactions among these various forms that are applied to unexpected territories?  Critically, through intermedial and interdisciplinary artistic approach, it would analyse distinctive challenges such as the personal and often intimate aspects of artistic inquiry.  It would search for relationships between art and reality and how intricate, diverse or in contrary, simple and uniform they are. To extend the artworks’ spectrum from direct representation to imaginative transformation, illustrating the perspectives of the artist and their social contexts, the artist moved their practices beyond the studio to enable a direct engagement with the spaces, challenging conventional artistic boundaries through site-specific interactions focusing on white spaces of the city.  In urban environments, white spaces denote open areas located between buildings or unutilized spaces separating two or more independent structures that do not share any connections. These areas are frequently neglected, unoccupied, non-operational, and pending future use.

This study examines the ways of ephemeral interventions in which art imitates, interprets, and transforms the visual reality of urban white spaces and their structures through several media such as photography, drawing, painting and digital art.  It explores both, factual and fictional lenses alongside the artists objective and subjective experiences, scientific and art-based research methodologies used to produce artistic evidence and conveying results by which Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roberta Štěpánková and Dr. MSc. Miroslav Čibik are supporting Eva Bodo’s artistic research qualities and verity of implemented methodologies. It also challenges artist’s multifaceted skills to develop sustainable, even eco-friendly immersive artistic solutions that prioritize environmental conservation alongside social engagement through arts.