Exposition

How to Integrate Yourself into Society (2024)

Jewellery witch Seraphita
Darja Popolitova
open exposition

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"How to Integrate Yourself into Society" is a performative video piece featuring the Ethnic Brooch, created for the exhibition Magical Hotspot at Vent Space Gallery in 2020. The work explores pseudomagic through symbolic ritual and material interaction. In the video, the character Seraphita pricks her finger with the brooch’s needle, allowing blood to drip onto a cracked phone screen. This act symbolises a ritualistic attempt at integration, merging personal identity with digital and societal representations. The piece employs haptic-visuality, emphasising the tactile experience of the brooch’s needle piercing the skin, creating a visceral connection for the viewer. Close-up shots and textural details enhance the sensory impact, making the act of penetration both symbolically and physically felt. This multisensory approach intensifies the emotional resonance of the ritual, transforming the brooch into a charged object within a speculative, magical context.
typeresearch exposition
keywordspseudomagic, jewellerywitchSeraphita, darjapopolitova, popolitova, fictionalcharacter, artisticresearch, contemporaryjewellery, magicandart, spirituallychargedart, witchartist, contemporaryjewelry, Seraphita, languageassculpture
date15/12/2024
published16/12/2024
last modified16/12/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationEstonian Academy of Arts
copyrightDarja Popolitova
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3292373/3292374
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3292373
published inResearch Catalogue
external linkhttps://youtu.be/y0ApLMBgnPs?si=zKNOZ_YzOa5uQnio


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nameHow to Integrate Yourself into a Society_ video effects Ando Naulainen, sound design Andres Nõlvak
copyrightDarja Popolitova
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesvideo

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