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
      • Side effects
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Annihilate by speaking 2017

video documentation, 3 parts

The artist about the work: “Let us calmly assume that magic language has become an equal way of talking about effects and causes, diagnoses and phenomena. The power of the sacred flows through our country and is reflected in various forms. The magic word is a way of action rather than a tool of thought. The time has come to react. Let us no longer argue as intellectuals, let us reject logic, sine it has long ceased to matter”.

From 13th to 15th May 2017, Liliana Piskorska performed “enchanting rituals” to undo, as she says, the spell cast on Poland: “I want to reverse evil and remove all the bad things. As it is written: The person who was under a spell suffered from a terrible sorrow. In order to get rid of it, one had to do something about undoing the spell”.

“Enchanting” (etymologically in Polish: “annihilate by speaking”) is one of the three classical Polish word rituals. They are meant to: 1 – create (someone wants something to happen), 2 – protect (we want something not to happen) and 3 – undo things (we want something not to have happened). (after: A. Engelking: Klątwa. Rzecz o ludowej magii słowa [Spell, or on the folk magic of the word], Warszawa 2010 and O. Wachcińska, “O ludowym rytuale zamawiania” [On the folk rite of casting a spell], Rocznik Muzeum Wsi Mazowieckiej 2011, no. 1; Sejm of the Republic of Poland: Resolution to commemorate the centennial of the Marian apparitions in Fatima)

Venues: Hala Areny Toruń, ul. Bema 73-89, during the conference Poland has not been vanquished yet – the Countryside, Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Wiejska 4/6/8, Warsaw, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Krakowskie Przedmieście 15/17, Warsaw.

exhibition view, Side effects, Arsenał Gallery Poznań, phot. Tytus Szabelski
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exhibition view, Side effects, Arsenał Gallery Poznań, phot. Tytus Szabelski

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