Thesis title:

A multidisciplinary art approach towards healing for the displaced, nomadic female artist.

This practice research PhD will produce an original approach to constructing art that enables the female migrant artist’s healing amidst overwhelming loss. It will build on my autobiographical experiences (Heddon 2007) as a twice displaced ‘nomad subject’ (Braidotti 2011) from war-torn Ukraine, and on fifteen years’ artistic exploration of gendered representation and border-crossing bodies through watercolours, sculptures of myself, and performances. Working through finite materials (eg. soap) and states of bodily precarity, my practice finds agency within вразливість (the Ukrainian term meaning fragility/vulnerability).

Research Area

Applied Arts History, Theory and Practice
Visual Arts

Conferences

Kulikovska, Maria (2022) Invited Artist Keynote: Act(ions) of Solidarity: Possibilities of Hope and Change through Art, Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder through Performance, De Montfort University, Leicester, 1st July.

Public Engagement & Impact

Published artist-keynote speech:

Kulikovska, M., & Clarke, A. (2024). Act(ion)s of solidarity: possibilities of hope and change through art. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 44(1), 121–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2339048

Artist monograph with guest essays addressing my practice:

Exhibitions and performances:

Please see my website for further details: www.mariakulikovska.net

Other Research Interests

Contemporary performance

sculptural and visual arts

feminist and gendered performance

contemporary sculpture and architecture, siting the body within space

exile, migration, displacement and art/ performance

activism and art/ performance

bodies and borders

queerness

bodily precarity

Mariia Kulykivska

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