Independent Artist-in-Residence
Aniela Piasecka’s practice spans performance for galleries, film, digital technologies, unconventional spaces and theatres; it also includes community practice, facilitation, and teaching. Central to this practice is a desire for collaboration and for working with others beyond the model of the solo artist.
They view their practice as inherently relational and invested in the notion of a ‘dérive’, an ambulatory or moving state of experiencing disorientation which enables new meaning to be produced. She is particularly interested in phenomenology, theories of subjective experience, in relation to liveness – to excavate sites of sensitivity in the bodies of performers and audience alike.
Research has recently been developing around: the somatic experiencing and choreography of pain, the role of risk in performance and biopsychosocial research into the ‘functions’ of the body. Past works have been presented with Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; CAPC, Bordeaux; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art and Dansehallerne, Copenhagen; Cubitt Gallery, London; Soy Capitan Gallery, Berlin.
We hosted Aniela Piasecka in The Gardener’s Cottage in December 2025.
“It was the perfect peaceful setting to begin my new research period on the viscera of the body as the centre of our psycho-emotional lives. I spent my time at Forgan mostly reading Eleni Stecopoulos’ Dreaming In the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing and thinking around the impossibility, in some respects, of the act of healing. This reference text is in dialogue with many other works I’m currently looking at, from Carolee Schneeman’s Meat Joy to Cherish Menzo’s FRANK, and this research will inform the creation of a new performance.”
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