ELIZKA CHOJNACKA

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ART RESEARCH / FOOD / PERFO
MUR-MUR-MURS FROM HI-HI-HILLS The space of Botanical Garden in Ljubljana is being transformed through interactive objects, sounds and poems, translating the hard data of seed bank.  The process of soft-data gathering itself became the subject of broad exploration and reflection to honour sources of knowledge that are represented in the Botanical Garden. Tracing back the steps of knowledge collection, our team has found itself in Padovo, a mountain village in the south of Slovenia, which became a space for encounter and exchange.

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11.19 - 02.2020
with  KRZAK Collective
BIO26 Biennial of Design
Padovo / Ljubljana, Slovenia

art residence - artistic research - 
performative dinner - performance - poetry -design

FLOATING TABLERepresenting Floating University together with Jöran Mandik we collaborated with Think Playgrounds, artists Phạm Minh Đức and Tran Luong, and studio ĐuĐu  to create a two-part project around the idea of a dinner table as a social sculpture. The first phase was about creating a space: after exploring the neighbourhood, we guided participants in a design build workshop in the Phuc Tan playground to build unusual tables from found materials and debris left after Typhoon Yagi. Studio ĐuĐu then led an indigo dye workshop during which we created numerous tablecloths and banners using traditional sustainable dyeing techniques to shape the space around the tables.The second phase was all about hosting—first, a discursive dinner on disturbance ecology and then a festive, potluck-style gathering that welcomed the local community. 

2024
representing Floating University
with Jöran Mandik
in Hanoi, Vietnam


Project Collaborators: Think Playgrounds, Phạm Minh Đức, Dudu Indigo Dye, 
Trần Lương and Ngụy Hải An / APD center, 
Goethe Institute Hanoi

art residence - 
buidling workshops - dicursive dinner 

HEAVY EYES
Collective hypnosis using sound, taste and dreaming. The post-real imaginary tale about the disturbing potential of digestive coma. The performance was build on processes of postprandial sleep – a method of shutting down an overwhelmed body system in the name of gaining energy for digestion.

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07.06.2024
with Martix Navrot
Konteksty, Floating University, Berlin

food performance - collective hypnosis

FRUITS OF LEISUREExploring the space between leisure and labor, Krzak Collective began with a garden in Warsaw. In Leipzig, the cradle of urban gardening, our residency at D21 delved into the Kleingärtenvereins (allotment gardens), leading us to eating an early autumn fruits from bushes on the outskirts of gardens. The project culminated in a publication sharing stories of never pruned trees and urban harvest recipes.

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06-09.2022 with Krzak Collective
D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig

art residence - artistic research - 
performative dinner - recipes - publication

HARVEST FOR FATE
Feast prepared by young human as a gift for ants. Grateful insects, not being able to finish the meal, offered this table to creatures of Devil’s Circle.

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23.09.2023 – 03.03.2024
in cooperation with Eternal Enigne 
Legends of the Pixie Ring exhibition 
at Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw
 
food performance - instalation

SOUR POSSIBILITIESArtistic research based project focused on the metaphors that fermentation evokes as a practice of envisioning desired futures. Begun during the 2020 pandemic, it reflects collective experience of living through a crisis. The project includes research outcomes such as videos, texts, and story-recipes that explore the correlation between food fermentation practices and social transformations, freed from anthropocentric narratives.

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2020-2021
with Lena Michalik
shown at DOCK20, Lustenau

Digital video, 03:48 min








PAINTINGS  $$ YES,  ACCEPTING CRYPTO  PAY

LOVE
2024

sculptured muslin cotton, acrylic paint, spray acrylic, airbrush ink

200 x 180

MY BBY FROM THE BCK
2022

muslin cotton textile, acrylic spray,
oil pastel, acryl paint

170 x 180

AUTOPORTRAIT


2022 

muslin cotton textile, acrylic spray,
oil pastel, acryl paint

90 x 90 


I feel sad alone
and in your company
I feel sad alone in my body
Simply sad when I stand alone
in my own skin
I feel sad in my pain
I feel sad in love
I feel sad in the company
of kind people
 
2023

tablecloth,  acrylic spray, acryl paint

170 x 180