AUSTEJA PLATUKYTE
Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Crafts | 2022
Symbiosis for livings # 1 | 2022
Austeja Platukyte is a creative researcher working in between the disciplines of material design and science, technology, and craft. Her creative solutions are systematically linked to the theme of organic matter and a topic of materials transformation into other forms, introducing new social, cultural, economic, and psychological context into her creative process. Austeja explores the fundamental ecological problems, emphasizing subjective emotional involvement, and questioning the values of an anthropocentric society. departing from the aesthetic, formal, and functional definitions austeja seeks to discover alternative design methods that will resist the logic of universality, functionality, and overall beauty dictated by large-scale industry.
Symbiosis for livings # 2 | 2022
The objects are shaped by hand with an organic bioplastic and dried hemp fiber leftovers – an inexpensive, renewable and fast-growing plant grown in Lithuania, creating an organic and unique texture for a living materials to trap and host in surfaces. These living materials might help to co-design new hybrid materials and open symbiotic design opportunities. the fibrous surface of the cabinet forms a strong and organic hemp material that is ideally suited to hosting living materials but could be easily adapted to create decorative eco-board or wall panel products for use in architectural projects.
Symbiosis for livings # 3 | 2022
EXHIBITED AT CLUSTER CRAFTS 2020
In each of her projects, the artist seeks to highlight the relevance of the creative process, gain real experience in the development of new materials, while creating contemporary art and design objects. Austeja combines experimental research with the imagination and interpretation of existing knowledge while working on interdisciplinary projects. Austeja Platukyte explores the fundamental ecological problems, emphasising cultural-philosophical movement, awareness-raising, questioning the values of the society in the context of consumption.
Austeja Platukyte is an artist and Ph.D. student of design in Vilnius Academy of Arts. She focuses on material research, and her creative solutions are systematically linked to the theme of organic materials and her research lined with the topic of materials transformation into other forms, introducing new social, cultural, economic, and psychological context into her creative process.
Departing from the aesthetic, formal, and functional definitions A.Platukyte seeks to discover alternative design methods that will resist the logic of universality, functionality, and overall beauty dictated by large-scale industry. The artist strives to create materials and non-finite objects for the viewer's interpretation and the future transformation process.
By doing so, she seeks to rethink the relationship between humans and nature, questioning today’s scientific information and speculating future material possibilities.
Often, she raises the question about how creative practices can be focused on the social, cultural, and political realms that will only remain in the geological layers of the earth, and how we can use natural materials to create alternative and unpredictable future scenarios.
In her research, she also focuses on the material flows and traces we will leave behind as a species and designing biodegradable art objects which could be considered as independent things, creating their own story - collaborating with natural environmental processes and transforming into hybrid materials, which in future could become into new forms of art. In that way, the artist contribute to the never-ending world transformation processes