Katarzyna Łukasik looks at the relationship between imperialism and periphery. She examines conflicting notions of political imaginary as both means of erasure and potential. In her artistic practice she investigates the economic and cultural subjugation of Eastern Europe, treated as the testing ground for realisation of Western and Eastern imperial fantasies, tracing histories of imperial formations, and neoliberalism. Through fictional narratives she seeks to retrieve the political possibility of worldly cocitizenship and the commons, re-writing the periphery as a site of resistance and potential.

Together with Daisy Smith and Rufus Rock she curates Mascara Film Club, which creates a space for screening artists’ works outside of institutional organisations, in a more convivial setting, fostering a self-organised infrastructure for moving image practitioners. 

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