MAIN INTERESTS / RESEARCH AREAS

  • The aesthetics of atmospheres

  • 空 KŪ - ‘the philosophy of emptiness’

  • Japanese aesthetic concepts: 間 MA / Yohaku no Bi / Hikizan no Bigaku and Shitsurai / Yūgen / Yoin

  • Language, absence and silence (informed by work of Maurice Blanchot)

  • Asemic writing / Gestures and an ‘emptiness’ of language (informed by work of R. Barthes, M. Dermisache and H. Michaux)

  • Noh (能, Nō) theatre

  • Dérive as artistic practice (suprematism and psychogeography)

PUBLICATIONS

Vojnovic, A. (2025). Interior landscape in broken ink. [Master’s thesis,

Simon Fraser University]. Summit Research Repository.

Vojnovic, A. (2024). Nowhere in memoriam. SFU Educational Review, 16(1).

Vojnovic, A. (2022). MA - withIn. BookLeaf Publishing.

Vojnovic, A. (2013). Place. Journal of Childhood Studies, 38(2).

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Poetic and aesthetic dimension of form and emptiness. (forthcoming - March 2026). YellowHouse art centre, Galiano Island

Utroba: Internal landscape and the bodily memory. (2025). YellowHouse art centre, Galiano Island

Felting. (2012, ongoing). West Point Grey Academy, Vancouver SD

Encounters with places: Dwellings. (2015). Windsor Elementary, Burnaby (funded by ArtStarts)

Negotiating bodies and materials. (2014-2015). Brentwood Elementary, Burnaby (funded by ArtStarts)


EXHIBITIONS

Nowhere in memoriam. (forthcoming - March 2026). solo show. YellowHouse art centre, Galiano island

Utroba: Internal landscape and the bodily memory. (2025). solo show. YellowHouse art centre, Galiano island

Performative geometry : Grids and geometric abstraction. (2021). solo show. CSA space, Vancouver

Walls are not walls. (2019). solo show. Massy gallery, Vancouver

Encounters with places: Dwellings. (2014-2015). group show. ArtStarts gallery, Vancouver

 
 

PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE

As an educator, my primary focus is to critically engage and research on the spatial design of educational spaces, specifically on the functionality and conventions of educational spaces for young children. I examine both concrete and abstract aspects of generic interior-spatial design and co-designed atmospheres in this context: physical flow and circumstantial constraints or opportunities; positive and negative spaces, ambient emotional cues, linguistics of objects and interior elements: textures, colours, light and sound (acoustics, ‘noise’). What emerges from this approach is an holistic understanding of a living-learning environment and spatial atmospheres - characterized by the interdependence of a physical space, people, materials, psychological impact and overall (sensorial) experience.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Interior landscape in broken ink. (2025). Art based research

The aesthetics of subtraction. (2021, ongoing). UBC Child Care, Vancouver

  • Hikizan no Bigaku (interpreted as The aesthetics of subtraction) in early childhood environment.

  • Focus on designing a living-learning space in the absence of commercial toys.

The aesthetics of atmospheres: Spatial rhythms.(2016, ongoing). UBC Child Care, Vancouver

  • The study of the (interior) spatial design with the focus on simplicity and visual stillness.

  • Yohaku no Bi (interpreted as The beauty of white space) and Shitsurai (interpreted as Arranging space with care and meaning) in early childhood environment.

Curriculum room: Installation studio for early childhood educators. (2009 - 2012). Artistic and design inquiry. Westcoast CCRRC, Vancouver (funded by Westcoast CCRRC)

SEMINARS (invited as a speaker)

conferences: BCATA, Capilano University, ECEBC, Heart of the Matter, Preschool Promenade, Wonder of Learning Exhibit (Reggio Emilia Tour)

child care resource and referral centres: Westcoast Family Centres, Options Community Services, YMCA, Archway Community Services, Prince George CCRR, Sea to Sky, MRPM CCRR

school districts and child care centers: Burnaby School District, West Point Grey Academy, UBC Child Care, YMCA, YWCA, Lower Mainland child care centres, Japanese Hall

post secondary institutions: UBC Department of Education, Capilano University, Vancouver Community College, MTI Community College, BCIT

 

(*) References

Barthes, R. (1982). Camera lucida: Reflections on photography. Hill and Wang.

Iversen, M. (2017). Photography, trace and trauma. The University of Chicago Press.

Sardello, R. (2006). Silence: The mystery of wholeness. Goldstone Press.

Vojnovic, A. (2025). Interior landscape in broken ink. [Master’s thesis, Simon Fraser University]. Summit Research Repository.