Svetlana Shilankova

In I Am Where I Am, I examine how once-radical techniques—such as textual cut-up methods and experimental poetics—are now appropriated by corporate culture. The project takes the form of a video featuring an AI-generated office persona, repeating algorithmically shuffled iterations of the phrase “I am where I am,” displayed on LED panels within a sterile office environment. What once signaled rebellion now resounds as a corporate mantra. The work poses a critical question: what does it mean to inhabit a space that simulates freedom while choreographing every movement? In this context, I consider art as a tool for generating alternative spatial imaginaries—not through utopian invention, but by tracing tension: between presence and absence, automation and embodiment, visibility and secrecy. My installations are not answers but invitations—to linger in the unresolved, to dwell in the in-between, to repeatedly map the unstable coordinates of our time.