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Katarina Ranković Stage Moose Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Katarina Rankovic (b.1994) is a video, drawing and text-based artist exploring the extent to which personhood is encoded in character, and whether fictional characters can be reverse engineered into something approximating persons; a kind of literary prototype of general artificial intelligence. Current projects include 'Empathy Drawings', a means of becoming other through the body of line; 'Anomaline', a novel about an anti-person; 'Vernacular Spectacular', a one-woman empathy circus, and 'Scripting for Agency', a PhD project at Goldsmiths College. As a Serb born in Yorkshire, raised in Norway and working in London, both the theory and practice of Katarina's work originates from the daily necessity of inhabiting and switching between many selves. Education PhD Art - Goldsmiths College, 2019-2022 MA Fine Art - Central Saint Martins, 2016-2018 BA Fine Art (Painting) - Wimbledon College of Arts, 2013-2016 Select Exhibitions/Awards New Writing with New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, 19 February 2022 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, 10 Dec 2021 - 20 Feb 2022 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, 25 Sept - 28 Nov 2021 Ridiculous! Elephant West, London, 9 Jan - 2 Feb 2020 Pseudo, Perfomistanbul Performance Research Archive, 2020 Vernacular Spectacular, solo exhibition, Tension Fine Art, 9 Aug - 7 Sept 2019 Winner of the Golden Aesop Grand Prix in Contemporary Art at the 24th Biennial of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria, 2019 TBCTV, Somerset House, London, 3 - 7 Oct 2018 Xhibit 2018, Art Bermondsey Project Space, 19 Apr - 12 May 2018 NOVA Awards; Aberystwyth Arts Center, Royal Cambrian Society, Arcade Cardiff, 26 Jan - 1 Apr 2018 Art to Artillery, short film commissioned by NOWNESS and Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, 2017 Winner of Refinery29 Artist Vision Award, 2017 Altered Realities, Lethaby Gallery, London, 22 Feb - 15 Mar 2017 Blind Scripting, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, 13 Jan, 2017 Blind Scripting, Nottingham Contemporary, 1 - 2 Dec 2016 Crypt Residency, Crypt Gallery, London, Oct 2016 A Ritual Resuscitation of Eternal Lovers, The Cockpit Theatre, London, 21 Dec 2015 The Doctor, Artists' Locomotion Moving Image Festival, London, 2 - 4 May 2014 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These improvised ink drawings are part of a strand of my practice called 'Empathy Drawings'. The drawings grow out of an initial appreciation of the medium itself; the body of the line. I then imagine the line that comes out of my pen to be an enviable body, something which I desire to wriggle into like a second skin. The line is a perfectly impressionable being which yields to the vibrations of my fledgling intent. I discover myself in them. By empathising with the line I create for myself a spiritual prosthesis through which I can temporarily become other, like a dancer slipping into character.