Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies
Zuzanna Andruszko
Born in 2001. Studies: Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (bachelor’s degree 2020–2023, master’s degree since 2023). Scholarship of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts (2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22). In her research and curatorial studies, she focuses on feminist and queer practices, building solidarity between minority groups, and collective generation of knowledge. Curator of the exhibition “Horizon”, Gallery-1, Czapski Palace, Warsaw (2022). She completed an internship in the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation. She collaborated with the Department of Exhibition Production of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2022–2024). She co-creates the artistic and curatorial collective zwykła dziewczyna kolektyw (since 2023).
According to Lauren Berlant, “the problem of the world isn’t one’s alienation from it but … its overcloseness, the ongoing pressure of it.” In order to determine the state that we experience due to said overcloseness, she introduces the idea of inconvenience. Its degree varies depending on a number of factors that constantly shape the individual, and at the same time define their place in the system, making life more or less bearable.
Starting from the concept of (queer) utopia, I seek an alternative source of hope, focusing on the practices that try to work with the experienced inconvenience, enter into a relationship with it here and now. As an example of such practices, I took the output of two queer artists – Krzysztof Jung and Krzysztof Malec.
“Queer Notebook” refers to Judith Butler’s “excitable speech”. In the form of a writing exercise book, I wanted to reflect upon the material power of language and the extent to which we can learn some interpersonal and intergroup relationships.
