Fluidity as a State of Being: Generative Disruption of the Everyday
Anna Floto
Thesina 2025
73 page publication
Over the last few years, my practice as an artist has focused on public life, relationships, and social behaviour, especially the unspoken rules of interaction in cities and in my everyday surroundings. My work often seeks to observe and intervene with these patterns to build new ways of engaging with others and the world. I approach this practice with fluidity and openness, allowing ideas and encounters to unfold organically rather than imposing fixed forms. Concepts from Donna Haraway, such as diffraction, companion species, and making oddkin, remind me that we are always entangled with others- human and non-human and that paying attention to these entanglements can open new paths for connection and collective living.
In this thesina, I will explore the themes that most inspire me and that are linked with my artistic discourse: The Everyday, Natural Forms and Processes, Communication, Invitations and Accessibility into Artistic spaces, Limitations and Rules, Chance and the Unknown, and Collaboration and Co-Creation. Within each of these elements, I argue that disruption- understood not as undoing but as a gentle alteration or ripple, opens new perspectives and creates generative ways of being. Using personal observations, anecdotes, experiences and theorist and artistic references, I weave these themes together with my artistic research- manifested in happenings, paintings, performative tattoos, and collaborative projects. My aim is to empower the reader to notice, to question, and to gently nudge the everyday into new forms: to see disruption not as harm, but as a beneficial insight into how we live. These ripples of disruption can operate on different spatial and temporal scales, sometimes producing an immediate effect in a specific interaction, and other times unfolding gradually or influencing larger contexts over longer periods. In this way, disruption is not fixed in size or duration but remains open, variable, and responsive to its surroundings.
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