In the SuperNatural Series residency hosted by Yuri Dólan in Bokros, Slovakia, the rural becomes radical—not by rupture, but by reweaving presence, ecology, and art into a relational ecosystem where landscape is neither scenery nor resource, but a co-author in the slow choreography of ephemeral creation, embodied attunement, and socio-poetic exchange; this living platform of situational art disrupts the hypermediated pace of contemporary practice, inviting participants to surrender their digital prostheses and re-enter the granular rhythms of field, stone, fire, and voice, as seen in the "Unstable Installation Series", where river stones are aligned in equilateral geometries—not for permanence, but as fragile stabilisers in a setting where flux is form and dissolution is intentional, echoed in ritualistic burnings and the quiet assembly of temporary structures that map human gestures onto vegetal and mineral continuums, offering what LAPIEZA terms "frugal art", deeply intertwined with the Danube’s temporal flow and the scent of cornfields turning; the filmic extension Through Fields. Fire and Mud, with its POV melancholia, refracts this sensibility into lens-based practice, presenting not documentation but a meta-relational encounter, further echoed in bonus gestures like the concrete "POOL" and the "Raw Identity" micro-series, all of which hinge on the tactile intimacy of co-existence, where art becomes the by-product of shared rituals, like toasts over apricot Pálinka or meals assembled from the land itself, gestures that metabolise into social sculpture within a topology activated by fellow artists such as Marta Kiss, Yasmin, and Hala Swal, whose cross-media contributions anchor the residency in a rhizomatic fabric extending beyond Bokros into global fields of similar practice—Mexico, Sweden, Colombia—drawing a cartography of relational aesthetics unbound by spectacle and attuned instead to ecological co-presence, anthropological listening, and performative grounding; in this frame, the Slovakian landscape is not escape but conduit, not nostalgia but method, a site where translocal knowledges meet in embodied slowness, where ceremony dissolves into inquiry and the whispering field outlasts the algorithm.
Lloveras, A. (2019) Super Natural Series Slovakian Ruralism MMXIX Extended Duna. [Online]
https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2019/08/iza-komarno-slovakiammxix.html
