Liliana Zeic (Piskorska)
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    • Benefits of BDSM for trauma survivors | Meristems
    • The red fog
    • Apples Grow on Oaks
    • Summer has completely come today
    • Gently running downwards
    • Zeic
    • Sourcebook | Książka źródeł
      • 2339 letters 8 574 pages
      • Cucumbers
      • Clamps
      • portrait of narcissa żmichowska
      • sketch for narcissa żmichowska
      • Wahlverwandtschaften #1
      • Sourcebook no 33
      • Useful knots
      • from the soil right here beneath this house
      • Wahlverwandtschaften #2
      • Wahlverwandtschaften #3
      • The Berry Maids #1
      • White lady
      • In each of these pairs, one would masculinise herself outwardly
      • drawings
      • text
    • A pine with six hands
    • I would rather not talk about this at church
    • Eighteen Christmas trees
    • Red-faced monkey
    • Strong sisters told the brothers
    • Well written act
    • Fifth Column
    • Legal Order
    • Group practices
      • Strajk Kobiet Wrocław
      • Collective Manifa Toruńska
      • #2613 (bez tytułu)
      • #2615 (bez tytułu)
      • Toruńskie Dziewuchy
      • Strajk Kobiet Kłodzko
      • Strajk Kobiet Zgorzelec
    • I find this strange
    • Herb of Grace
    • You’re going to love the lavender menace
    • It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home
    • Public displays of Affection
    • Annihilate by speaking
    • Stalin’s Revenge
    • About diseases of plants
    • The field I am buried in
    • Linguistic and gender asymmetry
    • Self-portrait with borrowed man
    • SCUM
      • Triad of Evil
      • SCUM/manifesto
      • SCUM/ in action 2016/1
      • SCUM/ journal
      • SCUM/preparations
      • SCUM/observation exercises
      • Andy Warhol – a self-portrait
      • SCUM/tools
      • Valerie
    • Unsorted
    • Freedom and Equal Opportunity (…)
    • She-wolf
    • Gays and artists create ODP
    • Rosa Winkel
    • A Journey
    • Playing with Myself with a Piece of Art
    • Bitches. Self-portrait with a lover
    • Blue blood. On TV I’m always a queen.
    • Other works
      • All the beautiful girls and all the beautiful boys
      • Methods of camouflage in contemporary Poland
      • I Was Always with You
      • Breathing exercises
      • Eleven skinned spruces
      • roots
      • double self-portrait
      • Revolutions – videos for the theater play
      • Different types od closeness
      • Blackout
      • My favorite porn actors
      • Woman to be eaten
      • Self-portrait with escapelle
    • Solo shows
      • Neetlebrides
      • Maids are sitting in a circle, Hawk was hanged
      • The star is burning over Betlehem
      • The long march through the institutions
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Gently running downwards 2021

2-channel video installation
23’11’’ each
camera: Alicja Kielan
leading the games: Marta Derejczyk
editing: Liliana Zeic
text: Liliana Zeic
translation: Krystyna Mazur, Ewa Bodal, Liliana Zeic
color grading: Artur Prymon
audio post production: Paweł Rychert

Choreographies of exclusion and hunt practiced in playgrounds around the world provide a background both for the far-right strategies of stigmatisation, as well as for the experiences of those singled-out as the other.

In this two-channel video Zeic confronts the language of legal tactics and organised ultra-Catholic campaigns with the intimate words of the targeted people affected by the minority stress, which she has been collecting since 2019. It culminates a two years long research of the mechanisms of far-right rhetorics and praxis, as well as the effected reactions to the ensuing discriminatory actions.

Having observed and experienced the most recent right-wing Catholic turn in polish politics along with its hateful anti-LGBTQA+ propaganda, Zeic exposes corporeal effects of anti-egalitarian fundamentalist ideology and practice. The mechanisms of exclusion, structural violence, punishment and marking the other are here traced back to the traditional children’s games, which preserve the rules binding societies and teach conformity to social gender roles. In Gently running downwards traditional folk games are indiscernibly intertwined with the one created by the artist on the basis of a conspiracy theory of “cultural Marxism”. This theory of ‘cultural revolution’ and ‘internal enemy dismantling traditional values’ within the Polish internet is embodied by a duped tigress feeding masqueraded piglets.

As the queer bodies perform the repetitive movements of chasing and capturing, grouping and singling out, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern which game is being played, what are it’s rules, or is it in fact a game at all. (Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz)

Trailer: https://emare.eu/works/gently-running-downwards

Reader: https://data.transmediale.de/assets/211012_the-gently-running-downwards-reader.pdf

Work was realised within the framework of the European Media Art Platforms EMARE program at IMPAKT with support of the Creative Europe Culture Programme of the European Union.

exhibition view, Werkleitz Festival, fot. Michel Klehm
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exhibition view, Werkleitz Festival, fot. Michel Klehm

© 2023 Liliana Zeic (Piskorska)