The University of Texas at Austin

Graduate Student, Art and Art History

Other Affiliations: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art History, Theory, and Criticism
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arts Administration & Policy

Graduate Coordinator, CLAVIS - Center for Latin American Visual Studies

Thesis Title: Weak Signals in the Fog: Tactics of [In]visibility in neo-Conceptual Peruvian Art (MA)

About

I am a Polish-born writer, independent researcher and curator, (as well as an artist in hiatus). In theory and in practice, I pursue what Vilém Flusser called “the freedom of a migrant,” which has resulted in experiments in life and work in Poland, Peru, Spain, and the United States. As of recently, I am a member of the research platform Red Conceptualismos del Sur / Southern Conceptualisms Network.

My first formation was in graphics at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland and my critical writing and curatorial practice grew out of the experience of working at a politically unstable periphery with a weak institutional scene. My extensive teaching experience (from the Warsaw Academy, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) has also strongly contributed to my thinking.

My research interests revolve around the questions of community building, "public sphere," and art historiographies in the “new democracies” under neoliberal policies in Latin America and Eastern Europe. I am also interested in issues of artistic labor, critical pedagogy, and systems of valuation in the art world.

Currently, my main focus are neo-Conceptual artistic practices in Peru during the Civil War and dictatorship (1980-2000), as well as and challenge of their narration after the fall of dictatorship. Some of them are the subject of my MA thesis, "Weak Signals in the Fog: Tactics of [In] visibility in the Neo-Conceptual Peruvian Art."