Jeanette Schäring
Interdisciplinary Artist
working with
Ecology – Colour – Textile
into Sensory Reseach
About
I am ViskansDotter — an artist and researcher based in Borås, Sweden.
I am intrigued by the ecopoetic and sensory state of colour, where perception fluctuates between light, plants, fibre, water, seaweed, and microbial life.
Colour breathes, decays, transforms, a living process in which microbes bind earth, saltwater, ocean, fibre, and body into continuous becoming.
My research and work unfolds within what I call predictive ecology, an understanding of life as a continuous sensing and re-sensing between water, fibre, microbes, and light. Here, colour, fermentation, and movement are forms of anticipation: the biosphere’s way of thinking ahead through matter.
Through fermentation, oxidation, and immersion, I study colour as living intelligence, an agent of transformation connecting chemistry, ecology, and embodied memory – somatic knowledge, My work is grounded in deep and extensive research, experimental, embodied, literary, archival and historical, women, colour and fibre.
Born in Borås, Sweden. Permanent residency in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
NEWS – Gibca Extended
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Sensory and somatic Colour systems integrate experiences of our existential encounter with the world, bringing us the truth and the magic of the breath and the wilderness of our hearts.
My Blog
The colours from plants can enhance our sensory perception, and deepen our psyche of intricacy, substance, beauty and fragility. The light gives us the prismatic shift of the colour blue in the ocean reminding us of nature’s time, schedules, the dynamics and interconnections of all life.
My work
I work with artistic research about botanicals and colours as an artistic research material and not as a resource. In my work, I investigate and delve into depth around plants, water, ocean, methods, colonisation and rights related to holistic, Colour, medical, scientific, and ancient knowledge. I try to understand complex processes beyond our current thinking, where I examine plants, seaweed and colours and how they communicate with us in a somatic and intelligent way. Water is fundamental in this work, as element, memory, and co-creator.
In my artistic research work, which is in-depth research about plants, colour and water. The focal point of my artistic endeavours centres on the eco-philosophical, aesthetic and spiritual exploration of Colour and material, biology, water and the intricate dynamics of our delicate ecosystem, which include looking deeply into the colonial colour and textile history with an ecological understanding of our future for change.
