W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research

is a Vienna-based researching visual artist, curator, and writer. Morusiewicz is the author of two doctoral theses: a “PhD-in-Practice” project at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, dedicated to the “queer remixing” of Polish “communist” film, and a doctoral dissertation at the University of Warsaw’s Institute of Applied Social Sciences, which proposes and performs queering strategies on several early-21st century Polish cinema films. Their artistic-research practice has led to several experimental films, screened at film festivals, presented as installations at exhibition venues, and programmed at online platforms in and outside Vienna. For over two decades, Morusiewicz has taught courses in artistic research, film studies, academic writing, and ESL at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (the “Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights” program), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Webster Vienna Private University, and Warsaw’s SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Since 2020, Morusiewicz has collaborated with Guilherme Maggessi as Maggessi/Morusiewicz. By employing tools and strategies stemming from their diverse backgrounds (design, found-footage film, performance, sampling, stitching, silkscreening), the artistic duo explores modes of creating archives and fabulating futures in expanded and intimate ways. The duo has presented artworks, curated exhibitions and screenings, performed, and showed their films in several institutions and independent spaces, such as Belvedere 21 (Vienna, AT), Exhibit Eschenbachgasse (Vienna, AT), Kunstraum Lakeside (Klagenfurt, AT), VBKÖ (Vienna, AT), wuk performingarts (Vienna, AT), SPEDITION (Bremen, DE), queerANarchive (Split, HR), and film place collective (London, UK).

is a Brazilian-Portuguese artist, researcher, and graphic designer whose work engages with the historical and material conditions of the production, circulation, and reception of (visual) images. His transdisciplinary research explores how images (and the concepts and metaphors attached to them) travel through space and time, as well as the traces they leave, both in public and private spaces. Maggessi’s practice involves mixed media, from printmaking and textile objects, to video installations, performance, and digital works. He works both as a solo artist and in collective settings, engaging in ongoing or recurring collaborations with other artists such as Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Lydia Nsiah, Seth Weiner, Julia Wieger, and Rafał Morusiewicz, also his partner. With the latter, he operates as Maggessi/Morusiewicz, an artist-curator duo that has produced artworks, short films, performance pieces, and curatorial projects, presented in institutions, independent spaces, and festivals, such as Belvedere 21 (Vienna, AT), Diagonale (Graz, AT), Kunstraum Lakeside (Klagenfurt, AT), VBKÖ (Vienna, AT), wuk performingarts (Vienna, AT), SPEDITION (Bremen, DE), queerANarchive (Split, HR), and PIANA Gallery (Cracow, PL). Together, they currently lead the artistic-research project “W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research” (PEEK | AR716).

Maggessi received an MA in Critical Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) and a BA in Communication Design from the Mainz University of Applied Sciences (DE). His writing has been published in Big Critical Energy (schlebrügge.editor), re-coding every day technology (the working group for unusual output media), springerin magazine, and more. He is also a board member of ig bildende kunst and a founding member of kuntsverein.