Katina Bitsicas: MicroMortality
Opening Performance on March 6 at 7:00 pm
March 6 - March 29, 2026
Image Still from MicroMortality by Katina Bitsicas
Practice Gallery is pleased to present MicroMortality, a performance and video installation by Katina Bitsicas.
MicroMortality explores our bodies and the afterlife at a molecular level through a projection mapped installation and microscopic performance. In a world where we are surrounded by AI “grief tech” companies in a thriving AI-driven digital afterlife industry and where chatbots are now “deadbots”, our ability to connect with the deceased is now seemingly more possible than ever before. However, the lack of physicality rendered in these AI interpretations creates a disconnect between the awareness of our own bodies in relation to the deceased. Katina acts as a translator of the afterlife, as she assumes the position of her late father as an enlightened being and investigates the makeup of our existence by making the micro-macro through large-scale projection mapping. This allows the audience to contemplate the relationship with their own physical state of being through direct confrontation with a former life that assumed the state of ash. The performance during the opening of the exhibition will feature immersive fixed projections in addition to the live performed microscope projections generated. For the rest of the duration of the exhibition, the immersive projections will be fixed for the viewer to experience.
Image Still from MicroMortality by Katina Bitsicas
Artist’s Bio
Katina Bitsicas is an internationally exhibited Greek-American new media artist who utilizes video, installation, projection mapping, BioArt, AR, photography, and performance in her artworks to explore grief, loss, trauma and memory. Bitsicas’ multimedia works revolve around themes of bringing back to life while the afterlife is still near. She recognizes the power of nature, drawing parallels between its unseen systems/structures and humanity's own body/systems. She received her BA from Kalamazoo College and MFA from the University of South Florida. She is an Associate Professor in the Media School within the Kinetic Immersion and Extended Reality Lab (KIX LAB) at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Image from MicroMortality by Katina Bitsicas
