INFRARED Residency
We present to you Luiza Thaqi and her project Stusy of relations (,) of us., which she will develop during her stay at
Stusy of relations (,) of us.
Socio-ecological system, a concept created by Murray Bookchin in the 60s where Bookchin began to pursue the connections between ecological and social issues. He further writes in his paper “What is Social Ecology?”, as an introduction: Social ecology is based on the fact that all our current ecological problems stem from deep social problems. From this perspective, many of these ecological problems cannot be understood, much less solved, without a careful understanding of our existing society and the irrationalities that dominate it. To make this point more concrete: economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender conflicts, among others, lie at the core of the most serious ecological dislocations we face today—arguably, those produced by natural disasters. The individual of how it looks from the thought of ecological issues, with the reason that there are several often more that are activated, there are no results in change. But the problem has not found here, the idea is to understand what Bookchin This is such a thing that is in his punishment, clearly showing that man does not control nature or the change in nature, if he thinks himself separated from it. It is how they are created between different environments or different from each other creating a functional system. society’s societies are part of the environment. Based on this, Luiza, her artistic research, aims to contextualize and explore the concept of socio-ecology within the specific environment of Kosovo. In doing so, it seeks to discover how the principles of socio-ecology apply to the country’s unique social and environmental conditions. The objective of the actions is also suitable for an action on the interaction of society and nature in Kosovo, but also to communicate this knowledge in a way that can serve as a tool for a wider measure. The educational aspect is about fostering a deeper understanding of how our functioning is connected to the environment and the natural world.
Who is Luiza?
Luiza Thaqi is a young artist living in Kosovo. She completed her bachelor’s studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Prishtina, painting department (2018-2021) and started the master’s studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, University of Pristina. As a visual artist, she works with a variety of artistic media, including painting, drawing, photography and video. Her work is often based on personal experiences and explores how individual practices intersect and manifest within society. Important to him is exploring how our understanding of individuality changes depending on our relationship with society at a given moment. Moving on, the work goes on to examine the functionality, construction of social relationships and the foundations on which these relationships are built, ranging from social organizations on a smaller scale to social organizations on a larger scale.
