Oskar Kandare’s intermedia artwork sys_6x3_CAT consists of rudimentary motion sensors, mechanical components, and cable configurations. It is an autonomous kinetic system that functions like a primitive single-celled organism in its earliest stage of development. Lacking complex sensory perceptions, it responds only to its immediate surroundings. Its movement is uncertain, slow, and without real purpose—it exists only to exist.
sys_6x3_CAT has connected itself to the room’s electrical system, disrupted the geometrically ordered arrangements of local power units, and redefined the function of its motors. Now, through its movement, it increasingly influences the sensory characteristics of the space, changing and observing it with its presence.
The work explores the boundary between the living and the non-living, between evolution and stagnation, and within the duo exhibition, where artistic projects of Oskar Kandare and Lara Žagar co-create a shared space of speculative thought, raises questions about the meaning of bare, purposeless existence and the possibility of autonomy in such mode of being.