Bianca Tainsh
2025 Visual Arts Residency - 20 Weeks
Through a hybrid practice of contemporary art and fluid forms of ecological activities, Bianca Tainsh explores issues such as the cyber-saturated human’s disconnect from the natural world and the search for spirituality in the digital age. Neo-animism forms the trope for artefacts and rituals that unveil new forms of coexistence and being and imagines the emergence of a tech-enabled epoch of interspecies collaboration.
Tainsh’s work spans video, digital and semi-traditional media, assemblages, and live art. Organic imagery, materials, and processes find new meaning as they converge with technology and cyber ethos. She often relinquishes works to the entropic forces of the more-than-human, who then define the outcomes.
Through a current Metro Arts residency, Tainsh is developing a new body of work for exhibition in August 2025. And as an adjunct researcher at the University of Queensland she is working collaboratively with researchers to explore the possibilities of converging the spectrum of Earth’s intelligences – human, more-than-human, and digital. The research provocation: how might art and technology manifest an intimate process of interspecies connection, and can an A.I. learn to care by facilitating this nuanced entanglement?
Tainsh has exhibited and held live art performances and events across Australia and overseas. She has participated in international residency programs and has been the recipient of an ArtStart grant, among other accolades and awards. As an advocate of Art for Change, Tainsh has been invited to present a TEDx talk, webinars, and has sat as a panelist for symposiums. Her artistic education includes a 1st Class Honours Degree from RMIT University, and to compliment the social aspects of her practice she studied Arts & Community Engagement at the Victorian College of the Arts.
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