Wysakowska / Walters – an interdisciplinary artist and educator.
Holds BFA in Graphics and Audiovisual Communication; MFA with distinction in Intermedia from the University of Arts in Poznań awarded in 2011, and a PhD in Fine Art received in 2022.
Likes to explore hypothetical possibilities and far-fetched ideas that aren’t necessarily realisable. Invents and shares tools for people to become more creative seeing education as a playful and creative activity.
In her art practice, she assumes analytical, focused approaches combined with diffused, intuitive modes. Her process is imbued with meaning through research, method as well as fostering observational ~ note-taking skills.
~ re-occuring themes:
journey / maps / silence / intuition / abstraction / relations in texture, pattern, typography and organic elements / perpetual imaginative-exploratory processes / trees / ecologies – in particular ruderal ones
~ re-occuring mediums:
video / short animations / audio / text / objects / installations / zines / notebooks / collage / drawings / play / educational forms / process / method of art making / reflection / collaborative formats / discursive & interactive spaces / alternative structures / solitude
The artist describes herself as a storyteller.
She is currently affiliated with the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie), where she teaches her own original course at the Faculty of Intermedia, focusing on artistic research and critical reflexivity in studio practice. She also teaches Methodology of Artists Pedagogy at the Doctoral School of Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Poland and abroad.
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Happened in 2007. It premiered her two works at a group exhibition entitled Ein Jahr, 79 Positionen, 28 räume, Art Museum Modern Art Hünfeld in Germany. The show curated Gerard Jürgen Blum Kwiatkowski. Since then, she has been developing her path by presenting works locally in Poland and internationally.
Include: participation in Meditation Biennale and Poznań Design Festival, both in Poznań, Poland; presenting her works at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela; European Art Media Festival in Osnabrück, Germany; 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Russia; Fórum Eugénio de Almeida Évora, Portugal; having her work in the collection of Museo Caja Granada Memoria de Andalucia in Spain; Unesco A.poRT, Incheon in Korea, presenting her work at Sapienza The University of Rome, at Simultan Festival in Timisoara, Romania; and Apexart in NY, USA.
An extensive case-study of her approach to art making and silence can be found in The Ethics of Silence – an interdisciplinary case analysis approach by Nancy Billas & Sivaram Vemuri, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
See chapter 9: Visible Silence entirely dedicated to the work of the artist >>> full book on SCRIBD _ click here !!!
At Intermedia Faculty, she teaches ‘Art Practice Starter’, a class she designed to introduce students to artistic research & critical reflection. The active substance of the class is students’ artistic practice. The act of analysing it becomes the art form itself.
This classroom concept turns the art academy inside out. The processes of studying, dismantling, discussing, and playing collaboratively — alongside deep reflexivity — become the artistic medium itself. It reframes education from a passive site of transmission into an active, experimental practice.
Together with PhD candidates at Kraków Fine Arts Academy’s Doctoral School, she examines potential alternative educational structures in a course titled ‘Methodology of Artistic Education.’
Alongside her regular classes at Fine Arts Academy, Wysakowska / Walters also organises workshops and training sessions for Polish and international art students. She also likes to run creative workshops for general public.
Her most recent teaching programme for artists > Method meets Intuition offered practical and scientific knowledge on such intuitive modes as felt sense, hunches, awes, hypnagogia in day to day artistic practice. It also explored Gary Klein’s Triple Path Model of Insight. The course was done within the framework of Erasmus + Blended Intensive Programmes (~ received distinction).
Wysakowska / Walters has given her papers at various venues including Mansfield College, Oxford University and Lancaster University, UK. Her latest paper : Focused and Diffused Thinking: The Quest for the perfect dance between the two was written for 1st International Conference entitled Methodological and Cognitive Aspects of Visual Arts organised by The Doctoral School of ASP E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland.
BA in English Language Teaching from Gdańsk University, Poland. Next, she studied for two years Applied Linguistics at University of Warsaw. She dropped it to gain the degree of Master of Education by Advanced Study in Education from Exeter University in Britain. She received the degree in 2005.
Wysakowska / Walters started her artist training by accomplishing first an NCFE Intermediate Certificate in Video Production at Plymouth College of Art & Design.
Wysakowska / Walters Elżbieta – artystka interdyscyplinarna, edukatorka.
Absolwentka Grafiki i Komunikacji Audiowizualnej AHE w Łodzi oraz kierunku Intermedia na Uniwersytecie Artystycznym w Poznaniu, gdzie w 2011 roku uzyskała dyplom magisterski z wyróżnieniem, a w 2022 roku stopień Doktory Sztuki.
Lubi rozważać hipotetyczne możliwości i mało prawdopodobne rzeczy, które niekoniecznie da się zrealizować. Tworzy i udostępnia narzędzia, dzięki którym ludzie mogą utrzymywać swoją wyobraźnię w stałym ruchu. Postrzega edukację jako dzialalność twórczą powiązaną z zabawą.
W swojej praktyce artystycznej łączy podejście analityczne z różnymi trybami intuicyjnymi. Systemy znaczeń w swoich pracach buduje w oparciu o badania, eksplorację metod sztuki oraz rozwijanie umiejętności obserwacyjno-notatkowych.
~ powtarzające się motywy:
podróż / mapy / cisza / intuicja / abstrakcja / badanie relacji między fakturą, wzorem, typografią i elementami organicznymi / nieustanne procesy wyobraźni i odkrywania / drzewa / ekologie – szczególnie ruderalne
~ powtarzające się media:
wideo / krótkie animacje / tekst / obiekty / zin / zeszyty / kolaże / rysunki / zabawa / formy edukacyjne / proces / metody tworzenia sztuki / refleksja / formy współpracy / przestrzenie dyskursywne i interaktywne / struktury alternatywne / samotność
O sobie artystka mówi, że jest opowiadaczką historii.
Obecnie związana z Akademią Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie, gdzie prowadzi własny autorski przedmiot na Wydziale Intermediów zajmujący się badaniami artystycznymi i refleksją krytyczną w praktyce artystycznej. Naucza również w dziedzinie Metodologii Edukacji Osób Artystycznych w Szkole Doktorskiej tej samej uczelni. Jej prace prezentowane były na licznych wystawach i festiwalach w Polsce i za granicą.
