Kruno Jošt

During an artist-in-residency stay at Sardegna Teatro in Paulilatino, Sardinia, Italy, from May 6th to 17th, 2025, research was conducted to engage with the themes of insularity, islander identities, and island socio-political realities through a “more-than-human” lens.

Research was conducted at multiple locations on the coast and inland, seeking water and land connections and borders rich in life and events. Water samples were collected for subsequent microscopic imaging and the production of high-quality photography and video.

Some of the particularities found on the island included seaweed, commonly called “sea potato” – a seaweed resembling a ball of wool or pet hair, ranging in size from a bird’s egg to a large potato.

At the beach, a 3-meter-high seaweed “mountain” was decomposing, creating a rich environment for microbial life.

A livestock watering place full of algae, the Roman Baths of Fordongianus, and Salina Manna (the salt lakes) were all explored, and water with sediment was sampled. One channel video was created, and live music was performed at the Sardegna Teatro residency at the end of the stay.

This program is carried out through ISLAND CONNECT, a collaborative program between seven performing arts organizations, working with residencies located on (or associated with) European islands of different countries.

During nonconsecutive three months artist in residency in Halland region of Sweden, a research was conducted around the problematic toxic sediment created by extensive industrial history of the Borås city on the Viskan river as a part of proposals for the theme of artistic “ecological literacy”.

During residency, for the project purposes Viskan was visited on many occasion. Canoe travel was undertaken to collect samples of the river that were later used to examine microbiological life of the river.

As known from scientific research, some forms of toxicity can be remediated with microorganisms so this was taken as an inspiration to look into ways of enlarging their numbers and activity locally.

Microorganisms can be influenced trough certain sound frequencies in certain volumes that in some cases enlarges their number in shorter time, and without any unwanted effects to environment.

After conducting a research on sound frequencies and its influences on observed microorganisms in the collected samples some of them were designed for the informance (informative performance) on the river itself.

Canoe was arranged into a vessel that can take one participants on the river trip. This canoe had an installation for playing sounds beneficial for the bacteria, but was also tailored for each participant to get into a state of appreciation of the river. At the same time participants could release what is known as Miracle Enzyme, organic compound beneficial for the microorganisms that was created in a prior workshop. An intimate visual reference was tailored for each individual observance of Viskan river and its inhabitants, with accompanying sound and information about micro and macro cosmos.

Research and performative action were executed during Art Inside Out residency Between the Rains in region Halland, Sweden in 2022.

Whole photo-log can be seen below

Reclaiming and defending the ‘old territories’  for any meaningful and inhabitable future.

MMkamp brought more than 30 people together to investigate, reclaim, create TAZ, participate, learn, acknowledge and appreciate trough workshop and presentation.

Have a look at photolog.

ART01 is a project that examines art operating systems trough self reflection on artistic practices done in last 11 months – from September 2009 to July 2010. On 25th July ART01 has a public presentation in ContentArt gallery, Kreutzbergstr. Berlin. Please join for collaborative public event, spiced with pirate radio, on-line broadcast, social games, linux install party, exchange and swap, loop and feedback.

More on ART 01

Diagrams are important part of ART01 project, have a look at gallery >>

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Bank of sounds recorded during travel – monotonous, meditative trips trough different states of living organism called Earth.

Sounds have been collected mostly from trains, buses and airplanes and while walking.

Sounds are unedited and can be played in any combination or order. They represent specific time and specific place that one cannot see but can listen and imagine.

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In the concept of Free Web Poetry ‘Free’ refers to freedom of expression (freedom for nonlinear expression and intuitive creation), ‘Web’ refers to online but also web-like structure, and ‘Poetry’ is from the Greek “ποίησις“, poiesis, a ‘making’ or ‘creating’.

FWP could be intriguing for writers and artists who like to make complex nonlinear structures. I use it for making interactive  cut-up / haiku poems  – poems change as reader clicks on the nodes.

How to use: download and install xebece (software developed by Roman Kennke). Write a short sentence or a word in each node, make connection to next node and keep on writing. Play with the structure and new meaning will arise.

Download short video (5 Mb) in ogg theora codec of FWP ‘Poštovani konj’ (‘Respected Horse’).

Download A SKETCH for THE STUDY IN THE GENEALOGY OF SUBCULTURES relative to the STRUGGLE BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACHINES and please contact me for further references or questions

Presentation .odp >>

Presentation .ppt >>

Following audio file has been recorded on September 24th evening (2007) in GJ studio as a part of research in CELLULAR AUTOMATA MUSIC that was developed in GentleJunk co. labaratory.

Main occupations in this generated piece is correspondence of rhythmic instruments and time. It is work of 4 slightly different CA scripts that are directed in improvised way. A relationship is developed by connecting seemingly indefinite loops and revolving them back to their own start point.