Natasha Tontey
"Pest To Power"
https://struktura-time.com/
Opening Friday 21.02 20:00-22:00

Pest to Power is a science-quasi-fictional quest into a peculiar behaviour of cockroach that is constituted as an assemblage of nocturnal, habitable, homeopathic, and resourceful material. Being marginalised for thousand years as a creature carrying diseases and treated as a fearsome species by the human counterpart, the judgment toward cockroach is built by the hyper-sterilised biopolitical idea of ‘proper lifestyle’ in which overproduction of synthetic commodity and human dis-attachment to waste generates cockroach as a peripheral creature outside human’s sphere. World-building is one of the essential aspects of Pest to Power. Pest to Power's digital world, as seen on the video, consists of three main queered characters; A commune of cockroaches, Humans-without-Genitals, and Humans-leopard. These three characters each represent different features; the collective consciousness of the nonhuman agency in cockroaches, the compassionate and proponent of kinship in Human-without-Genitals, and the hubristic trait of anthropocentrism in Human-leopard.

Natasha Tontey is an artist and graphic designer based in Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia. She is interested in exploring the concept of fiction as a method of speculative thinking. Through her artistic practice, she investigates the idea of how fear, horror, and terror could be manifested in order to control the public. Her works have been shown internationally in Other Futures (2019), Next Wave Festival (2016), Australia, Koganecho Bazaar (2015), Japan, JejakTabi Exchange (2018), Indonesian Dance Festival 2018 and Instrument Builder Project: Circulating Echo at Kyoto Art Centre (2018). Her solo exhibition Almanak was held in 2018 at Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, Indonesia.
Natasha Spelled Backwards

/ Struktura. Time is a cross-disciplinary initiative for research and practice within the framework of visual arts, media archeology, literature and philosophy. This five-month programme sprawls across virtual online environments and multiple physical venues in Oslo. It consists of exhibitions, film screenings, group readings, public event series and a club night.
Design and web development by Magnus Andreas Hagen Olsen. Graphic design by Abirami Logendran.
STRUKTURA is an independent project initiated and developed by Lesia Vasylchenko.
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// K4 Galleri is supported by Arts Council of Norway.