ABOUT
Katya Lachowicz is an artist researcher whose practice delves into the liminal spaces between fiction and reality with a particular audio-visual sensibility. Interests include art and politics, resistance, rhetoric, infrastructures and bio-political geographies.
Current doctoral student at Goldsmiths University investigating futurity across two political imaginaries in the south of Spain: The neoliberal greenhouse model on the coastline of Almería and the self-sufficient communities in the mountains above. Cutting across both sites, the research seeks to understand the mechanics of progress and collapse in the politics of futurity through a multimodal perspective.
CONTACT
Email: katya.lachowicz(a)gmail.com
Website: www.katyalachowicz.com
Instagram: @katyasartstudio
Email: katya.lachowicz(a)gmail.com
Website: www.katyalachowicz.com
Instagram: @katyasartstudio
PRESENTATION OF CONFERENCE PAPERS
Doing and Undoing with Anthropology
EASA, Barcelona, 23-26th July 2024
Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias
Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias
Council for European Studies, University of Iceland, 21st-25th June 2021
Rethinking Crisis, Resistance and Strategy
Historical Materialism Conference, Panteion University, Athens, Greece, 2nd-5th May 2019
The Fourth International Conference on Visual Representations of the Other
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2nd-5th December 2015
SIEF2015: Utopias, Realities, Heritages: Ethnographies for the 21st Century,
Zagreb, Croatia, 21st - 25th June 2015
Contextualizing Changes: Migrations, Shifting Borders and New Identities in Eastern Europe, Dom na Uchenia, Sofia, Bulgaria, 8th - 10th October 2014
SELECTION OF EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
Dolores & Friends, Kensington Library Cinema, London, UK, 29th February 2020
Hyper-reality & Anthropology: Film Screening and Conversation with Katya Lachowicz
UCL, London, UK, 7th December 2018
UCL, London, UK, 7th December 2018
Stereotypy o Polsce / Stereotypes about Poland, Brain Damage Gallery, Rewiry Centre for Culture, Lublin, Poland, 24th June - 8th July 2016
Cultural Clash Nomade, Espace Duplex, Geneva, Switzerland,
30th August - 22nd September 2013
Begehungen Art Festival no. 8, You Are Leaving the Area of Responsibility
Justizvollzugsanstalt (Prison) Kaßberg, Chemnitz, Germany, 18th - 21st August 2011
Pavilion X, Galerija Jakopič, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Justizvollzugsanstalt (Prison) Kaßberg, Chemnitz, Germany, 18th - 21st August 2011
Pavilion X, Galerija Jakopič, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
19th October - 15th November 2010
Klang im Namen des Raumes, Im Namen des Raumes, Berlin, Germany,
Klang im Namen des Raumes, Im Namen des Raumes, Berlin, Germany,
18th July - 29th August 2010
Blockade I, Universal Cube, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany,
Blockade I, Universal Cube, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany,
1st - 30th May 2010
Resonanzen: Festival für Hörkunst, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany,
Resonanzen: Festival für Hörkunst, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany,
15th - 18th April 2010
EDUCATION
2015-2018 MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University College London (UCL)
2009-2013 Dipl. (MA) in Media Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (HGB) Germany
2008-2009 Guest student at Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (HGB) Germany
2007-2008 BA in Drawing, University of Arts, Camberwell, London, UK
2006-2007 FdA in Fine Arts, University of Arts London, Byam Shaw (CSM), UK
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2013 Member of organisational team for the Cultural Clash Nomade film programme
2012 Member of organisational team for experimental film festival 'Avantgarde ist keine Strömung III', Luru Kino, Leipzig, Germany
2011 Member of team leading a political art workshop and exhibition as part of the festival 'Dialog der Kulturen' in partnership with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Murmansk, Russia
2009 Member of curatorial team IAG for the media art exhibition 'Talk Talk – Interview all Künstlerische Praxis' at the HGB Gallery in Leipzig, which later travelled onto Kunstverein Medienturm in Graz and Galerie 5020 in Salzburg as part of Steirischer Herbst Festival
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2013 DAAD Student Award
2012 Film Funding from the Free State of Saxony Arts Council (KdFS)
2011 Sponsorship from Nubert, Thomann, and In-Akustik for sound installation
2009 NGBK / UQBAR residency, Tourist Syndrome: Transient Spaces, Palanga, Lithuania
2005 Second prize in SKOFFKA Festival of Young Cinema, Kinoteka, Warsaw, Poland
TEXTS
With Jim Donaghey – Mutual Aid Versus Volunteerism: Autonomous PPE Production in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis, Capital & Class, 46(3), 2022, pp. 427-447
'The Gourmet Nazi: Nationalism's Base in Privilege over Poverty' [2018] in (eds.) D'Urbano, A., Möller, C., Cultural Clash Nomade, Institut für Buchkunst Leipzig, 2021, pp.78-80
'Nouvelles d'Iran', Agitation Autonome [French], August 2019
'The Cultivation of Image in the Multimedial Landscape of the Polish Film Chronicle' in (eds.) Demski D., Kassabova, A., Kristóf I., Laineste L., Baraniecka-Olszewska K., The Multimedialized Other: The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe 1945-1980, L'Harmattan, 2017, pp.198-213
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