Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya

'Skin Script'
1080x1040 cm
video performance

While growing up, I remember a moment from childhood: once, together with other children, I stung myself with nettles, believing that in the dots and marks on our skin we could read the future.

Now, I return to this memory and to the act of stinging, using my body as a medium of inscription. I breathe into presence while tracing the burning marks of nettles on the part of my body I cannot see. The marks become scripts, letters through which the body speaks — carrying not only fortune-telling signs but also imprints of collective histories and cultural memory.

This act is at once a way of learning new forms of understanding, an invocation, and a gesture of protection — connected to Slavic traditions in which nettles were often believed to hold qualities of healing and safeguarding in ritual practices.

What stories are carried forward when the skin itself becomes a medium of communication? And how might this open a conversation not only about my future, but about our shared possibilities of becoming?

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About the artist

Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya (1990) is a media artist and performer originally from Belarus. She works with installation-based performances and co-created spaces, that often including interaction with participants. She composes various kinds of mediums and materials for exploring the interconnectivity and in-betweenness. It includes video, installation, sculpture, sound. She gives a value to research that includes interviews, interactions with people, travels in different areas, body practices and experiments like non-verbal communication, collective sleeping sessions, where re-search becomes also re-learning re-forgetting or re-inter-acting. With the help of different materials and processes, the places of connection are forming. She often delves into the realms of dreams and collective memory, crafting imaginary maps and facilitating collective dreaming participatory situations. Since 2020, she has delved into the research investigating the discrimination against the Belarusian language, intertwining this pursuit with the study of traditional singing and its AI sound reproduction as a speculative tool for preservation of memory.