https://izakoczanowska.com izakoczanowska Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:37:34 +0000 https://izakoczanowska.com en https://izakoczanowska.com/Top-header Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:24:53 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/Top-header Iza Koczanowska. Unstable Territories. Field research, material experimentation and speculative storytelling. https://izakoczanowska.com/Outside Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:37:34 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/Outside Outisde the Dream House  Drawings on biomaterials 2026 - ongoing https://izakoczanowska.com/31-34-50-N-130-39-29-E Sun, 31 May 2026 02:06:59 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/31-34-50-N-130-39-29-E 31°34′50″N 130°39′29″E  Arcus Project Research Residency  Ibaraki, Japan 2026VIDEO 2:29 Spatial scans, bioplastic made from hot spring water and volcanic ash, interior scan models Tracing animism through water, Japanese onsen cul- ture reveals how stones marked with ropes signal the presence of kami, while legends of wounded animals healing in thermal pools continue to persist. Water is not a backdrop but an active agent: volcanic, miner- al-laden, coloured by iron or sulphur, and behaving differently from anything that comes from a tap. Across multiple onsen sites, LiDAR scanning was attempted to capture spatial conditions. The scans failed. Steam density was too great to resolve. That failure became a method: incompleteness as a record of material resistance. From collected onsen water, volcanic ash, and hydro- phone recordings, biomaterials were cast into interior models built from deformed floor plans, partial recon- structions of places dissolving under tourism pressure, abandonment, or geological force. The research asks what artistic practice can do when matter refuses to be fully represented, and whether that refusal is itself a form of knowledge.      https://izakoczanowska.com/onsenscape Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:46:40 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/onsenscape OnsenscapeArcus ProjectResearch Residency Ibaraki, Japan2026 Onsen water, field recordings, 2 × large Petri dishes, electrical equipmentDimensions: 40 × 12 cm (each) Field recordings and sound installation based on underwater recordings from an onsen, created with and without the presence of the human body. The captured sounds form an onsenscape — a sonic landscape of the onsen — which is reintroduced into the water through playback. Two vessels containing water respond differently to these sonic conditions, creating distinct movements and formations. The work explores how the body becomes a temporary agent shaping the acoustic, material and spatial conditions of the environment.  https://izakoczanowska.com/the-legend Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:52:08 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/the-legend The Legend of the Wounded Deer and the Onsen in progress https://izakoczanowska.com/pijalka Thu, 14 May 2026 10:49:26 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/pijalka Pijałka 2026Sculpture prototypes Referencing traditional Polish spa drinking vessels used in sanatoria and mineral water resorts, the prototype reimagines the cup as a communal object with multiple spouts for multispecies use. Designed around a shared source of mineral water, the object reflects on collective rituals of healing, regeneration, and care. It proposes the sanatorium not as a space organised around individual treatment, but as an environment inhabited by multiple bodies gathering around extracted natural resources. https://izakoczanowska.com/powloki Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:57:41 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/powloki Powłoki i Pancerze 2026Instytu Designu w Kielcachcurated by: Marta Lisokphotos by: Alicja Kielan A biomaterial made from sea foam and seawater, marine-derived biopolymers, St. Jacques shells and oyster-based PLA filament, metal parts from a found umbrella, winter shoe insoles, aluminium   https://izakoczanowska.com/sonic-acts Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:11:21 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/sonic-acts To (un)tame 2026 Sound Performance Sonic Acts Biennial Rijksakademie, Amsterdam VIDEO 16:04 By engaging metal stairs and a sink as selected architectural elements, the work introduces water droplets and the rhythm of movement into a spatial feedback system. Through interaction with objects, pauses, attentive listening, and the detection of resonant frequen- cies, the work echoes the rhythms of the building’s former cavalry function while simultaneously exploring how resonance is not fixed but rather searched for and shaped through tempo, walking, and acoustic contact. in collaboration with: Eunjin Yoo Malou van der Veld Lena Chen https://izakoczanowska.com/play-pearl Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:36:07 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/play-pearl Pearl play 2026 Participatory sculptural object  A found string of cultured pearls becomes the starting point for a participatory object that explores systems of circulation, exchange, and value. Referring to the cultivation of pearls and their movement through jewellery economies, the work transforms a familiar ornamental object into a playful mechanism of redistribution. Through a simple game-like structure, pearls are set into motion, gathered, and passed along through a network of openings, creating a dynamic choreography of movement and encounter.  https://izakoczanowska.com/errancies Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:24:20 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/errancies Errancies 2025 Research through wandering and trace-based font  Costa del Sol Grounded in feminist geography, the work uses walking as a research method along the densely populated beaches of Spain’s Costa del Sol. Through GPS-mapping my trajectories, I remap the beach through bodily movement, examining how mass tourism reshapes access to shared space. Walking reveals compressed and inacces- sible fragments of terrain, where bodies interrupt the postcard image of the beach and become part of its landscape. The recorded trajectories are transformed into forms corresponding to actual beach fragments shaped by mass tourism. These fragments are rescaled and materialised as sculptural forms using biomaterials, while their shapes are also developed into a typographic alphabet. Together, they re- cord changing conditions of access, bodily presence, and spatial pressure.  🔗 Download the font .OTF file