杏吧原创

My research examines the connections between Indigenous Futurism and Slavic Futurism and the role of science fiction and popular culture in reclaiming traditional imagery and preserving oral stories. When doing my research I approached my work self-reflexively as not only a settler, but as someone who belongs to the Polish diaspora in Canada. Where I look at Indigenous Futurism in the decolonial context, I approach Slavic Futurism through the lens of Polish artists de-westernizing themselves. I focus on visual art and short films and how they show that culture and tradition can live in a contemporary, futuristic, setting: the Navajo creation story can be set on Mars (The 6th World), and Polish folk heroes can out-smart demons in a space ship (Twardowksy 2.0).

Doctoral Project

THESIS TITLE:听From Turtle Island to Vistula鈥檚 Shores: Indigenous North American and Eastern European Futurisms in Dialogue

Defence date:听January 15, 2024

Recent Exhibitions and Publications

• 鈥淩eflecting on Identity Through the Family Album鈥�. In Ottawa Hispanic Studies: 27^th Edition, edited by Luis Abanto and Ana Fernandez, 77-90. Ottawa: Lugar Comun Editorial, 2018.
• 鈥淟iving Culture Moving Art鈥�, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa, ON. 7 鈥� 21 April 2015.
• 鈥淢apping Ottawa鈥�, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, ON. 17 鈥� 27 July 2014.
• 鈥淯nconventional Space as Cultural Dialogue: Installations from the Central-Eastern World鈥�.听Millefeuilles Journal, Ottawa: Magcloud. June 2014.
• 鈥�125 Years鈥�, Paradigm[e] Gallery, Ottawa, ON. 5 December 2013 鈥� 17 February 2014.

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Recent Conferences

• 2019. Metis Futurism: Rosalia Favell and Metis in Space Set Their Phasers to Decolonize the Sci Fi Universe (V. 2), NAISA 2019, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand/Aotearoa
• 2018. Metis Futurism: Rosalia Favell and Metis in Space Set Their Phasers to Decolonize the Sci Fi Universe (V. 1), 鈥淲orlding SF: Building, Inhabiting, and Understanding Science Fiction Universes鈥�, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
• 2018. A Tale of Two Polands, “To Maria Amanda Bairo: Legacy of Love” panel, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, International Colloquium: Women’s Voices/Voix Feminines/Voces Femeninas, University of Ottawa, ON
• 2018. Pi臋kna 艢mier膰: The translation of death rituals from Poland into Polonia (V. 2), Death and Culture II Conference, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK
• 2017. Pi臋kna 艢mier膰: The translation of death rituals from Poland into Polonia (V. 1), Joint Graduate Students Symposium, 鈥淐ommemoration and Critique: Discussions around Heritage Conservation & Cultural Work of Mourning鈥�, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa, ON
• 2017. Water is Life, Water is Blood: Indigenous Resistance and Environmental Activism in Music Videos, Off the Record Conference, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa, ON
• 2017. Barry Ace 鈥� Beads and Motherboards, CIRCLE Conference, 鈥淩eckoning with Canada at 150: Critical Perspectives and Indigenous Sovereignty鈥�, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa, ON
• 2017. Analyzing the Family Album, Work in Progress: The Construction of Identities Through Discursive Practices in Contemporary (Canadian) Society, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
• 2016.听Decolonizing the Streets. Workshop and presentation at the Decolonizing Conference CIARS 2016. Toronto, Ontario. 5, November.
• 2016-2018.听Contested Landscapes and Beats on the Streets. Presentation with Prof. Allan J. Ryan at the 2016 Summer School on Arts + Human Rights Program. Ottawa, Ontario. 23, June.
• 2015.听Calligraffiti: The Script of Protesters. Presentation at Flux & Flow: Explorations of Movement and Change. Ottawa, Ontario. 28, March.
• 2015.听Imagined Identities, Composed Memory.听Presentation at Zelikovitz Centre Student Colloquium: Religion, Memory and Identity. Ottawa, Ontario. 17, April.