https://izakoczanowska.com izakoczanowska Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:24:54 +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| https://izakoczanowska.com/tour Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:58:59 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/tour Speculative Warsaw Old Town Tour  Performative guided walk / artistic research 2026 (ongoing) Following the structure of a tourist trail, I trace other ways of moving through the history of Warsaw’s Old Town. Shifting away from dominant narratives of destruction and reconstruction, it follows folklore, archaeological remains, urban matter and more-than-human witnesses: a centuries-old waste mound, spiders inside surviving walls, microorganisms inhabiting the stone of Sigismund’s Column, crows, insects, roots and lichens. Drawing on the morphology of the folktale, historical research is intertwined with legends and their speculative retellings. Repeated, altered and passed on over time, these stories form a fluid palimpsest of place, where human and more-than-human perspectives overlap.Who gets to narrate the city? Developed within Traseologia by Marek Krajewski, Fundacja Puszka https://izakoczanowska.com/brokenness Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:06:35 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/brokenness The Living Wall of Brokenness Group show Curated by Pita KimOud House, Rotterdam 2026 The exhibition reflects on the demolition and redevelopment reshaping Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) in Rotterdam. Where redevelopment hides breakdown, the exhibition lingers in cracks and fragments. A grid of poles, recalling the exposed frames of a demolition site, holds light, sound, garments, carpets and performances made from neighbourhood materials, forming a new Living Wall of care and repair. From biomaterial containing dust, dirt and residues collected in BoTu, I made a carpet as well as fragments attached to a sound installation by Pita Kim. Discarded local matter, collected and reorganised, becomes a temporary architecture and a material image of Brokenness.  Photos by Teresa Miarka https://izakoczanowska.com/brokenness-LED Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:24:54 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/brokenness-LED On opposite sides of a corner, a nod to J.J.P. Oud’s housing, where a repetitive system had to bend to the irregular streets, two ESP32 microcontrollers with single LEDs blink in sync. A motion sensor breaks their rhythm whenever someone passes, and a Raspberry Pi with an LCD screen records each passage as a notation of dots and lines. Technical support by Lukasz ZuberPhotos by Teresa Miarka https://izakoczanowska.com/errancies Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:24:20 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/errancies Errancies Research through wandering and trace-based font  Costa del Sol2025 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 ︎︎︎ https://izakoczanowska.com/Ugly Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:09 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/Ugly Ugly Beach Sculptural video installation  Wrong Norma, Nieuve Insituut Rotterdam2025 Ugly Beach is a research-based multimedia installation exploring the beach not as an idealised paradise, but as a contested landscape shaped by tourism, privilege, exclusion, and ecological instability. Inspired by an encounter with unusual yellow sea foam on the coast of The Hague, the project uses sea foam as both material and metaphor—a form that resists the polished aesthetics and extractive narratives imposed on coastal environments. Through unstable materials such as agar-agar, seawater, foam, and 3D-printed elements, combined with video, sound, and projected imagery, the installation creates a surreal beach environment where human presence merges with the landscape. Referencing Édouard Glissant’s concept of opacity, the work explores forms of matter and landscapes that resist simplification, ownership, and commodification. Ugly Beach challenges the romantic image of the beach by revealing the ecological, social, and political tensions hidden beneath its idealised surface. Photos by @silvia__arenas.jpg https://izakoczanowska.com/UglyStimulator Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:44:03 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/UglyStimulator Ugly Beach Walking Simulator_on going https://izakoczanowska.com/seasonal Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:00:09 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/seasonal Seasonal Grounds Research supported by Stimuleringsfonds 2026 Research notes (ongoing) ︎︎︎ Biomaterials, post-natural matter and fragments of seasonal infrastructure collected across different beaches, catalogued through their material biographies and transformed into experimental composites. I look at the contemporary beach as a landscape formed through natural processes, tourism and temporary infrastructure. Local matter becomes entangled with parasols, ropes, textiles, fastenings and other traces of seasonal use. By collecting and tracing these fragments, I explore their origins, functions and transformations, and how they eventually become part of the post-natural matter of the beach. I am intrigued by how tourism becomes matter.  https://izakoczanowska.com/Lullaby Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:32:41 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/Lullaby Lullaby For Depressed River MusselsSound intervention on site, interactive sound installation MIARD, Piet Zwart Insitut Dutch Design Week︎︎︎ 2024 This speculative sound installation engages with aquatic environments affected by noise pollution. It combines hydrophone recordings of ferries, motors and underwater soundscapes with lullaby-based vocal experiments tuned to specific frequencies. The process involves walking, listening and singing on site, with the voice as a resonant tool interacting with water-borne vibrations. A submerged hydrophone captures underwater sound, while a speaker made of recycled mussel shells sends song back into the water to offset the impact of noise. The work acknowledges river mussels’ extreme sensitivity to acoustic disturbance, treating this fragility as a central condition of the system rather than a theme. Silicone mussel-shell casts act as tactile interfaces that trigger sound events, sent into the water through embedded speakers and electronic modulation. Through headphones, the resulting acoustic field forms a feedback loop between submerged sound, vibration and bodily perception. The installation constructs a speculative non-human listening condition in which human, infrastructural and aquatic perception partially translate into one another while remaining fundamentally misaligned. Technical support by Lukasz Zuber https://izakoczanowska.com/TheTunnels Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:32:40 +0000 izakoczanowska https://izakoczanowska.com/TheTunnels The Tunnels Do Not EchoCurated by Auðunn Kvaran Living Room, Athens 2024 VIDEO 6:49 The space might resemble a mourning environment, incorporating elements of ancient Greek Asclepius within conditions shaped by resource extraction and environmental illness. As a site of depletion, solastalgia treatment structures emerge from former mining landscapes, clinging to the remnants of once-abundant deposits. Through on-site engagement, the process involves entering the mined landscape, working directly with its materials, and taking their imprints, later transferred into the gallery space as a wall-based composition. The video combines archival materials from the Milos Mining Museum with on-site footage and interactions between the body and minerals, intertwining the memory of extraction and speculations about an extracted future. Minerals, engaging in a dialogue, enter into an intimate, quasi-therapeutic exchange. They serve both as a source of knowledge and a healing agent, forming a speculative encounter between past, present, and future, shaped by AI-generated narratives. Technical support by Lukasz Zuber Photos by Frank Holbein