Hi!
My name is Ewa. I’m working with the complexities of translating experience, knowledge, and atmospheres into different media - from language and research to visual, sound-based, and artistic manifestations. I am fascinated by the ways we displace the world to make it comprehensible - but also the ways the world displaces us, for its own purposes. I am also interested in creativity and artistic expression as a practice of connecting with ourselves and the worlds we are ingrained in.
My perspective in writing is woven from sociology, science and technology studies, ecology, feminist and indigenous perspectives, humanities, arts, cosmology and Buddhism.
One point of this substack is to finally write up my insights about experiencing, understanding, learning, as well as transmitting our knowledge and experience to others. The starting point for this is research I’ve done together with dance teachers within the Axis Syllabus framework - but I think it’s valuable for anybody who wants to communicate their experience and knowledge from a deeper understanding of how we learn and receive our world. It’s for anybody who wants to understand their own learning processes better.
And yes, it’s about embodiment, the senses, and everything that is going on beyond words. It’s about our practices of inquiry. It’s about reflexivity. It’s about teaching. And it is about opening the doors to intuition and arts in our over-rationalized, concept-based worlds. This is what Entangled Translations are about.
The other intention of starting this comes from my experience as a person involved in arts - whether in dance, performance, visual arts, ceramics, poetry, music - or washing dishes. As a self-learned creative, deeply inspired by Dharma Art practices, I’ve been pondering a lot about art-making as a natural creative expression of being human, and how we approach it - this is what the section On Art is about. There, I’ll also be posting some inspirations for artistic practices I find within other creative people’s work.
Very likely, at some point there will be writing about completely different topics. Life is vast, after all, and its abundance inspires. There will also be general recommendations for music, books, and films that nourish wondering about the world.
I hope you’ll enjoy reading.
If you want to know more about me and what I do besides writing here, you can find some kind of overview on Linktree - feel free to dive into my other projects and collaborations. Or just contact me, if you have questions.
By subscribing, you’ll get nothing more, nothing less than my writing simply delivered directly into your inbox - and you’ll probably motivate me to write more regularly.
So, if you think it’s worth it -
