ELIZKA CHOJNACKA

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

site-specific project - artistic research - 
performative dinner - performance - poetry -design

FRUITS OF LEISUREExploring the space between leisure and labour, 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 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

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

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 - installation

FLOATING TABLERepresenting Floating University together with Jöran Mandik, we collaborated with the local community, 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. 

09-10.2024
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 - 
building 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 built 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

GESTURES OF NOURISHMENTA collective cooking event exploring gestures of nourishment and focusing on making food together.

The gathering began with a performative exercise in which participants were invited to express a gesture of nourishment — a movement evoking care, memory, or appetite. These embodied gestures became an entry point into the shared act of preparing and eating food.

Working side by side, we formed small groups to cook traditional Polish dishes — pierogi, racuchy, and kompot. Each task, from kneading dough to setting the table, became part of a collective choreography of care.

31.08.2025
with Pola Salicka and Ignacy Rybka

in frame of the Ulga programme
at Floating University, Berlin



cooking workshops - 
- dinner 

SOIL DINNERParticipatory event exploring the tuber as a metaphor of energy, care, and community. The project combined elements of food art, collective cooking, and storytelling.

Participants were invited to bake clay-covered potatoes in an outdoor fire, reflecting on the agricultural, mythological, and political layers of this humble root. Through shared preparation and eating, we discussed ideas of subsistence, reciprocity, and the underground networks that sustain both plants and human communities.

The event echoed traditional harvest celebrations such as wykopki—the communal potato digging gatherings marking the end of the growing season.


27.06.2025
with Pola Salicka

opening of “Soil and Friends” 
curated by Marianna Dobkowska and Edith Jeřábková


at CSW Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

in cooperation with Kooperatywa Dobrze and Iza Bielawska 



food performance - 
- dicursive dinner