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Dominika Łabądź - artist, art activist, curator, PhD in art, assistant professor at the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She works at the intersection of art and social space related to exclusion, the issue of communication and collective action. She explores the operability of radical imagination, language and the potential of affective and affirmative action. In her artistic practice, she likes to refer to creative ecosystems, collective action, networking of artistic and socially engaged communities. She is interested in collaborative structures within which knowledge, resources and ideas are shared and combined. In 2009-2015 she co-founder Galeria U (Gallery U) in Wrocław an independent gallery space. In 2012 she co-founded non-hierarchical collective 69 sekund na ucieczkę (69 Seconds to Escape) that worked in activist and post-artistic movement. In 2016 with Joanna Synowiec she co-founded “Archiwum Społeczne” (‘Social Archive’). Since 2020, she has been working with the ArtBrut Gallery in Wrocław, where she supports the artistic work of people with mental disabilities and mental disorders. Currently, together with Joanna Synowiec, she is developing the publishing house Dziekie Przyjemności (Wild Pleasure). Grant holder of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (2014). Grant holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2016, 2019). Grant holder of the City of Wrocław (2021).

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