Agnieszka Gratza
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Agnieszka Gratza
(Born in 1974, Kraków, Poland. Lives and works in the UK)
Agnieszka Gratza is a writer and drifter. Her writings about art, performance and film have appeared in various contemporary art magazines and newspapers, including artforum.com, frieze, Mousse, and the Financial Times. A lapsed academic, she has also published articles on the subject of Renaissance intellectual and cultural history, while researching and teaching at the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Queen Mary, London.
Her more creative writing often stems from live art and performance: she has collected dreams and staged tableaux vivants of the Annunciation during a residency at the Gershwin Hotel in New York, made a series of edible artworks using saffron in collaboration with local chefs, and taken part in Tino Sehgal's These associations at Tate Modern in 2012. More recently, she has been chasing after volcanoes (from Santorini to São Miguel in the Azores) for a book of volcanic swims.
Blog: Conversation Pieces
Stay: April 11, 2016 - May 15, 2016
Co-organized by: The Backers Foundation
"The Annunciation", New York, 2011, video shot by Shaky Jones
"Revolution Soup" at Occupied Kitchen during Occupy Wall Street, New York, 2011, photo by Michelle Stewart
"Le Galli", the ongoing Volcanic Swims project, photo by Agnieszka Gratza
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