Jana Shostak CV+portfolio (english)

JANA SHOSTAK*

ISSN 1506-9087 Dodatek do „Gazety Wyborczej”. Sprzedaż łącznie z „Wyborczą”

wysokieobcasy.pl NR 36 (1050) Sobota 7 września 2019

contact: mail / jana.shostak@gmail.com instagram / heart.is.for.art

JANA SHOSTAK PAPIEŻU, ZADZWOŃ DO MNIE

* portrait on the cover of „Wysokie Obcasy” (High Heels) weekend supplement to one of the leading Polish daily newspapers. edition 155.000 copies

CV: PRIZES: [2019] DocLab Poland Award, Cracow Film Festival [2018] Special Prize Young Wolfs’18 [2017] Art Critic Award, Best Diploma Competition, Gdańsk [2017] II Award, Start Point Prize, Prague [2017] ZAIKS Award,Coming Out, Warsaw [2017] Award from City President, Biennial of Young Art Rybie Oko, Słupsk [2017] Grand Prix IN/OUT Film Festival, Gdańsk [2017] Public Award, Transmission Video Art Festival, Kassel-Warsaw [2016] Grand Prix Young Wolfs’16, Szczecin NOMINATIONS: [2019] 18. finalist Hestia Artistic Journey, MoMA, Warsaw [2018] Vordemberge Gildewart Prize, Cracow Museum of Contemporary Art [2018] 4th best media arts graduation projects, Wrocław [2017] 17. finalist Hestia Artistic Journey, MoMA, Warsaw [2017] finalist Grey House Foundation, Cracow BIENNIALS: [2018] Human Aspect, WRO Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw [2016] Manifesta 11, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich [2017] Draft Systems, WRO Media Art Biennial, Wrocław [2017] Biennial of Young Art Rybie Oko, Słupsk [2015] Test Exposure, WRO Art Biennial, Wrocław ANOTHER: [2019] quarter finalist Miss Poland [2019] II Vice Miss Pomeranian Region, Szczecin [2015] certificate from Polish Guinness Record, Poznań [2016] volunteer certificate during World Youth Days, Cracow ARTIST TALK: [2019] Symposium, Sharing Borders, Slade School of Fine Art, London [2019] Morning Breakfast TV Show, Warsaw [2019] Human Aspect, Wro Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw [2019] Open Lecture Inauguration of the Academic Year, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS: [2019] Golden Apricot, International Film Festival, Yerevan [2016] Aesthetic & Bias, Jerusalem [2015] Paradox City. Reactivating Central, Poznań [2014] Correspondences & Intervensions, Cracow EDUCATION: [2017 - ...] (PHD) Interdisciplinary Studies, Univercity of Arts, Poznań [2015 - 2017] (MA) Mirosław Bałka studio, New Media Art Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw [2011-2014] (BA) Performance Art Studio, Intermedia Department, Cracow SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: [2019] - Her Own Way. Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present, TOP Museum, Tokyo -Human Aspect. Wro on Tour, Etnographic Museum, Lvov - Fruit of all trees, 4 Culture, Łódź - Polish Hospitality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw - Merch, Rodriguez Gallery, Poznań - Art of Being Good, Kunsthal, Talinn - 18. finalist Hestia Artistic Journey, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art - States of Focus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw [2018] - Hestia Artistic Journey, MoMA, Warsaw - Young Polish Artists. MOCAK, Cracow - 4th best media arts graduation projects competition, Wro Gallery, Wrocław - Farmhands in factories and boas in brasseries, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok - Aesthetic & Bias, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań - Start Point Prize selection, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam - Farmhands in factories and boas in brasseries, Arsenał gallery, Białystok - Opowiedz nam coś o sobie, BWA Zielona Góra -Goodbye Ai WeiWei, Ini Project Gallery, Prague -Akcja! Lublin, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin

[2017] -Non-exhibition. Form resistance, Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw -Jak Jest, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin -Ja люблю You!, Wro Center Gallery, Wrocław -Start Point Prize, National Gallery, Prague -Coming Out, Best Diploma, Reduta Bank PKO, Warsaw -Biennale of Young Art Rybie Oko, Słupsk -Attention! Border, Arsenał Gallery Białystok / Labirynt Gallery, Lublin -NOWACY, shopping mall Złote Tarasy, Warsaw -Widzimisie, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice -Grassomania, GGM, Gdańsk -Best Diploma from Fine Art Academies, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk -Camouflage, shopping mall Koszyki, Warsaw -Draft Systems, Wro Art International Biennial, Wrocław -The Wall. Art Face to Face with borders, Trafo Gallery, Szczecin Present Performance Festival, Gdańsk -Deep water, GGM, Gdańsk [2016] -Manifesta 11, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich -Communis. Renegotiation, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin -6.edition Studio Otwock, Otwock -Video art today, Studio Gallery, Warsaw -Video news, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin -There, Central Bank PKO b.p, Warsaw -Here, NCAD, Dublin -Wola Warm Up, Wola Museum, Warsaw -Click&Click, Internet space -Aesthetic & Bias, Bezalel, Jerusalem

[2015] -Test Exposure, WRO Art Biennial, Wrocław -Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm -Paradox City, CK Zamek, Poznań -Paradox City, UP Gallery, Berlin -Team,Meta, exhibition under Anda Rottenberg, Salon Gallery, Warsaw -Video News, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin -Widzimisię, Obrońców Stalingradu 17 street, Szczecin -Be sober, Henryk Gallery, Cracow -Not Aufhname - 48 Stunden Neukolln, UP Gallery, Berlin -Picasso, sculpture, Warsaw [2014] -Students.Myths.Teacher, Fundation Pastificio Cerrere, Roma -Hot, cold, BWA Sokół, Nowy Sącz -A non existent object, Gallery 42*, Santiceva bb, Cetinje, Montenegro -Sziget Art Zone, Budapest -Balance, Polmos, Cracow -Option, Small Black Gallery, Lódź -Correspondences & Intervensions, MOS, Cracow -O koło, Bronowice Gallery, Cracow [2013] -Halny comes, UAP, Poznan -Desert, Opcja Gallery, Cracow -Intona Rumori Orchestra, Solvay, Cracow -End Exhibition, Manggha museum, Cracow

NEWMAN / NEWWOMAN / NEWMEN (NOWAK / NOWACZKA / NOWACY) Positive proposition for instant word for refugee. action in polish social mediaTV / on-going from april 2017 Nowadays the word ”refugee” has negative connotations (especially in Poland). Even Hannah Arendt wrote about it in her essay “We refugees” in 1943.

I have decided to find a more positive word for “refugee” in Polish. For that reason I invite newcomers from Kongo, Syria, Nigera, Ukraine, esperantists, sociologists, artists and poets to find together another one proposition for instant word. The word “nowak” never existed before. It is a homonym of Nowak; the most popular surname in Poland (its etymology can be traced to people who come from other places). Through this shift at the same time I am trying to convince Polish people that everyone somehow is a “nowak” (a new one / a newcomer). I have participated in a popular TV program about language, after which I began to spread the new word in more then 60 newspapers, radio and internet sites in Poland. Process of inserting the word is on going in anonymous way till nowadays.

* REFUGEE NEWMAN

Poster for the new word created for the Future Culture Forum in Poland

The work has began as the master diploma in Mirosław Bałka Studio of Spatial Activities and was presented during the International Newcomer (Refugee) day (20.06.2017) in a shopping mall Złote Tarasy in Warsaw.

interview in English https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/9664/newcomers-poland-migration-art [on the photo] interview in the polish TV programme

[on the photo] creating word process: https://vimeo.com/251044077 more information, archiwum from newspapers, radio facebook: nowacy https://www.facebook.com/nowak.nowaczka.nowacy/

[on the photo] documentation of the exhibition in the shopping mall ZĹ‚ote Tarasy, Warsaw

[next page] selected interviews about work

TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF (OPOWIEDZ NAM COĹš O SOBIE) Hacking beauty competition Miss Poland. hacking beauty Miss Poland competition / on-going from march 2018 Work consist of documentation from my participation in 5 castings around the whole Poland.

After the work about newcomers I decide to find out possibility to appear in the mass media with the art. Till nowadays finals of miss contests have more then 4 million viewers only in Poland. By slimming down and using the genotype which I got from my parents I decide to take my chance in that bubble.

The title of the work refers to the common question that appear during the regional castings for Miss Poland 2018. During casting interviews I try to make a product placement and tell them about word nowak (newman) instead refugee.

[on the photo] preparation photosession for the regional Miss contest

documentation of participation in 5 castings around the whole Poland (password: miska) https://vimeo.com/264903050 https://vimeo.com/263866258 https://vimeo.com/261735347 https://vimeo.com/261738721 https://vimeo.com/261739506

[on the photo] documentation of the exhibitions in MoMa in Warsaw and BWA Zielona Gรณra I created situation where viewers can be exhibited during the view.

MISS FROM THE EAST (MISS POLONII) Full length comedy documentary shown by fragments in the art galleries before it appear in cinemas.

DoP Jakub Jasiukiewicz, coproduction: Poland, France The premiere is planned for 2021 for 100 anniversary of beauty contests in the world.

During castings I got to the next stage of Miss competition. After that I decide to invite Jakub Jasiukiewicz, cinematographer to codirect the film and the whole project with many layer inside them. Project is situated between few worlds: art, education and miss.

In May 2019 I got the title II Vice Miss of West Pomeranian Region and become quarter finalist Miss Poland

Logline Yana is trying to infiltrate the national beauty pageant system to subvert if from within. Will her feminist agenda infect the system before it corrupts her?

Synopsis Yana, a 26-year-old feminist, wants to become Miss Poland.

Her attempt to crack the beauty contest system from the inside fails at the regional stage. She returns home to charge the batteries and rebuild her self-esteem. Having received support from her caring family, she decides to give it another shot. According to the contest’s regulations she is on the edge of the expiry date.

During the spring cycle she does everything it takes to please the pageant organizers and sponsors. Her aim: to get to the national finals, and use its platform to surprise millions of viewers with a statement during the live broadcast. Will she be crowned before she becomes an old lady of 27? And if she is will her provocation inspire the audience to reflect on what they are looking at?

In the final scene, she blows out 27 candles on her birthday cake.

production trailer link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wxTEX2JU3XHhS1SjjE4Lk7aWQuTBPMIt/view?usp=sharing

[still from the film by Jakub Jasiukiewicz]

[still from the performance during Pride Parade

by Jakub Jasiukiewicz]

performance documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f5CHhAF2Z2F9hlMZJhryALTTMvD8U0r-/view?usp=sharing

OPENING (OTWARCIE) With Jakub Jasiukiewicz we invite Miss to vernissage in the art world. performance / 2019 During the opening we hear a lot of sexist comments.

For me it was sign of hipocrytical tolerance inside art world.

[on the photo] Miss Poland of the WestPomeranian Region 2019 visiting MoMA, Warsaw [next page] curator explain exhibition to Miss.

MERCH Merchandising of the future film. collaboration with Jakub Jasiukiewicz usefull objects 2019 The collection inspired by the emerging film includes, among others: 1. silk sash (bag inside) with gold embroidery Miss Polonii 2021, 2022,2023 2. wooden-cotton deckchairs with a golden trace of Miss 3. last year’s collection of T-shirts with Nowaks (sale!)

4. stills from the film, color printing on cotton paper, in a signed box

[on the next 2 pages] documentation of the exhibition

PAPA CALL ME During World Youth Days in Cracow (2016) and Panama (2019) I decided to use the area of flag (which people use to show where they come from) for my private wish. action in the catholic social mediaTV / on-going since 2016

My message appeared in every online transmission during the last meeting with Pope Francis. I got around 70 calls and above 370 messages from all over the world.

In 2019 in Panama I repeat the same performance. Thanks to them the bigest polish breakfast TV invite me. I can use broadcast to speak about pedophilia problems in catholic church.

[on the photo] interview in breakfast TV show in Poland

[on the photo] one of catholic TV broadcast in Europe video link to the group of live transmission from 2016: https://vimeo.com/318155631

WHO IS YOUR POPE ?

We decide to change flags and put missing portrait on the main square in Cracow. illegal action / Cracow 2016 / collaboration with Mary Olbrychtowich During the World Youth Day (the meeting with Pope Francis) in Cracow we realized that there were no portraits of the pope Francis on the streets. There were mostly the portraits of John Paul II. That is because he was “the Polish Pope� and nowadays many Catholics in Poland do not have the liberal way of thinking represented by Pope Francis.

We decided to create his portrait in the official visual identification of the WYD and hung it on the main square. By accident Vatican TV came to us and ask security stuff to help us. They did it without knowing that we did it illegally.

[on the photo] news about our action in the main Polish newspaper

[on the photo] our flag with pope Francis is already hanging video link: https://vimeo.com/190704157

GIRLS DILEMMA FROM 70S Board game for everyone. board game for 2-6 people / Warsaw / 2017 With logotype for the word newman (nowak) instead refugee (uchodźca) on the reverse I create a game that based on mathematic algorythm„Girls dilemma from 70s” which are used by Dobble board game. You have 54 cards and 57 symbols - each one card have 8 symbols. Algorythm is based on that fact that every card have common image with another one.

Nowadays in Poland meaning of symbolical language is continually mixed. Local and international, religion and politic.

Even forbidden one (such as swastika) is accepted by Institute of National Remembrance of Poland as „widcard symbol”.

I LOVE YOU !

(KOCHAM CIĘ!)

I am looking for scratch cards lottery in Poland named “I LOVE YOU” that costs 1 zł. I go to a shop and just say: “I love You” .

Every each one reaction or no reaction is important. performative action / Szczecin / 2016

[on the photo] scratch lottery „I love You”

[still from the video] video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-mUBcE4qwE

SIGNATURE My own haiku in passport. sign in passport and another one documents / on-going since 2013

When I had 18 years old I realise that inside my surname is hidden abbreviation against belarusian president - ШОС (Shos). I create official signature that bring out this hook. Another part of the surname TAK (tak) means YES. If You change accent in my name ЯHA (Yana) it means in Belarusian language SHE. From time to time during border chek-in on belarusian side customs react by asking about my sign or just laugh.

VICTIMS OF VICTIMS Golden thoughts from black humor. silver spray, sign 40 x 520 cm / 2018 In Betlehem during the exchange program Aesthetic & Bias based in Jerusalem and Krakรณw I had chance for the conversation in one of the hostels. - Salah, what about Your situation in Palestine?

- We are just victims of victims ( bitter laugh )

BRAIN COOLING (CHĹ ODZENIE MĂ“ZGU) Yawing video. video performance / Video News Lublin / 2015 The video was created for Video News event (where students meet every year and share their latest videos) which is held in a cinema hall, which immobilizes viewers.

During the whole video I was yawning in order to pass it on to the viewers. video link: https://vimeo.com/180058557

BLACK SQUARE Protest with humor at the end.

A4 card, Hrodna /2016 In front of the Polish Embassy in Belarus together with my father I decided to support the Black Protest (which was against the total prohibition of abor- tion, even after sexual violence). This photo resulted in a lawsuit concerning an illegal action. The document said: “She is holding a black square in the A4 format�.

For that photo after judgement process we got 300 $ of fine.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION! *and excuse me (still) for my polish english