Non-narative Polish Videoart
Anka Leśniak: Feminist Art of Mine. Personal Video Narratives

During the lecture in the form of a case study of various cases of internet video and the artist's own works (with particular focus on the online project artUNBOXING), we will look at the relations between video posted on the web as content and those recordings that are made as an artistic verification of internet film genres. At the same time, selected video productions of students from the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk will also be presented.

ANKA LEŚNIAK
Born in 1978 in Bielsko-Biała, artist, researcher, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (2004) and History of Art at the University of Łódź (2003), an associate professor in the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, lives and works in Łódź and Gdańsk.

Her interests include artistic research, site-specific art, video and performance, especially in the context of feminist issues and art in public spaces. Her performative works explore themes related to memory, symbolic reconstruction, herstory, ethnic and cultural identity, migration, and language.

She is the author of the cycles Body Printing (since 2007), Top Models (2009), Fading Traces (2010), Invisible inVisible (2015-2016) Women patRIOTs (2016-2020), Lost Element/Re-construction of the Witch (since 2019).

Photo: Anka Lesniak, The spell with a mirror, 2020