Imaginary Architectures of Belonging, Knowledge and Care
All of the spaces that captured my attention, I translated into images by fantasizing about them, integrating my thoughts into their walls and surfaces. I remember those spaces now as unseen realities, that I have indeed seen once. I wondered if, by creating this photograph, I gave these lonely spaces a feeling of inner immensity. I only wasn’t sure whether I had been, at that moment inside the building, or in front of it? It doesn’t really matter. What I am certain: is that I will remember this image, every time again, in a different way.
Tina Bikic, Unseen Realities, 2016.
Contemporary society is marked by the dictates of digital innovation, which affect not only the process of creativity, but also the authorial role of the artist and the value of creativity itself. This work bridges the gap by exploring Poetical Digital Storytelling (PDS) as an artistic-research practice of belonging, knowledge, and care. It proposes a strong authorial approach with co-creation, expanding artistic research into an embodied, emotionally resonant process. Grounded in an artistic methodology, this research develops a body of artistic works that test and demonstrate the framework’s possibilities and aims to position PDS as a creative resistance within contemporary paradigms.
Imaginary Architectures of Belonging, Knowledge, and Care: Poetical Digital Storytelling as a Practice of Imaginative Poetics
PDS AS AN ARTISTIC RESEARCH
2025–ongoing
Doctoral research in artistic practice (in development)
This is a short introduction to the portfolio of my artistic and philosophical ideas from the period between 2015 and 2025. Conceived in different formats, surroundings, and media, these works are the synergy of imagination, theory, and artistic practice. They explore how spaces, lived, imagined, reimagined become a playground for memory, and how film and digital storytelling can serve both artist/researcher and viewer/reader.
The following statement traces the philosophical, spatial, and methodological foundations of my artistic voice, showing how this project has grown organically across media, disciplines, and roles.
KEY EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA
2015-2025
