Part three of our New Weird mini series features Jelena Viskovic’s Motonation. This 9 minute extract shows us two societies, Happy Nation & The Grid, where we follow Čedo as he decides which group to join. This surrealist sci-fi examines the consequences of individual vs collective desires, referencing Yugoslav performance art from the 1980s, and tools of humour and weirding during Čedo’s journey.

Sound Composition and Design: Tamás Marquetant

Chedo: Chad (Čedo) Spence

Her Sanctuary: Marija Iva Gocić

Artists @jelovix

Host @influential_bro @_rebecca.edwards  @niamhschmidtke 

Music @joemoss1

Broadcast through @rtm.fm

Jelena Viskovic is an artist born in 1989 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, raised in Belgrade, Serbia, currently living and working in London. Her background is in software engineering and game development.

Her work explores the role of gesture and play in relation to the creation and preservation of techno-scientific, political and historical narratives. Her sculptures and moving image works incorporate animated, talking objects that make their way into technologically deterministic, seemingly inanimate systems. Borrowing from a playful, carnivalesque logic, these worlds become rebellious but approachable, attempting to resist the rigid environments of institutions, archives, libraries and databases.