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mgr Michał Łukaszuk


Film and Visual Culture Section
m.lukaszuk2@uw.edu.pl

A graduate of the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, where he specialized in visual culture. Recipient of the Special Sławomir Świontek Award, granted by the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute for the best master’s thesis, for LIVE. The Phenomenon of Liveness – Anthropological, Media, and Ethical Problems.

He is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation on queer archives in Central and Eastern Europe, under the supervision of Professor Iwona Kurz and Dr Ewelina Godlewska-Byliniak.

His texts and translations have appeared in Wakat, Elewator, Epea, and Literatura na Świecie. He is co-editor and contributor to Rainbow Białystok. An Anthology of Queer Texts.

As part of a research and artistic residency at MeetFactory in Prague, he explored figures of the uncanny Slavdom and the monstrous imaginary in contemporary Czech art—a project carried out with the support of the European Commission’s Culture Moves Europe grant.

He has curated the exhibitions Thefts and Destructions and Wanda Czełkowska. Sculpture as an Intellectual Event at the Arsenał Gallery in Białystok, Do cracks at MeetFactory in Prague, and co-curated the performative exhibition Bílá. Modrá. Červená aboard the ship Atlantida in Prague, prepared to mark the tenth anniversary of collaboration between the Institut Français, CEAAC, and MeetFactory.

He has lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the Theatre Academy in Białystok, and UMPRUM in Prague.

His scholarly interests span a wide field of performance theory—from questions of ontology, ephemerality, and mediatization, to phenomenological, affective, and archival dimensions. His research draws on methods developed within performance studies, archival theory, queer studies, and visual culture.

A scholarship holder of the Mayor of Białystok. Author of poems and prose pieces presented, among other venues, at the Unsound Festival in Kraków, at MeetFactory in Prague, at the Pavilion in Poznań, and within the program Leipzig. A Place of Diversity in Leipzig.

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