Agnieszka Kurant continues the fall semester's Visiting Artist Lectures in Sculpture with a talk on Friday morning. Hosted by Helen Liene Dreifelds, Sculpture MFA '25.

Agnieszka Kurant's experimental, interdisciplinary practice explores how complex social, economic, and cultural systems can confuse fiction and reality.

Questioning the ideology of individualism, Kurant proposes that we rethink human and more-than-human worlds from a perspective of plural subjectivity, and, through this fundamental shift in perspective, posits the possibility of alternative political imaginaries. Kurant investigates collective and nonhuman intelligences and their impact on transformation of the human, the future of labour and creativity, and the exploitations within digital capitalism.

Her work probes the replacement of individual authorship with collective intelligence—a phenomenon observed in slime molds, termite colonies, social movements, cities, the internet, and inside our brains.

Fall 2024 Visiting Artist lectures in Sculpture are open to the SoA community.

Poster design by Youngjin Park, Graphic Design MFA ‘25.