NELLA PIATEK
A multimedia chronicle of a coven, materialised through performances, films and haunted operated systems. Through the lens of ecofeminism, cyberfeminism, and post-humanism, Nella meditates on contemporary myths around archives, impermanence and hauntology.
The alter-ego Xris and the clan of cyberwitches and eco-priestesses, offer views on anarchival practices, the consumptive relationship of the human species with nature and the cyborgist behaviour already present in our everyday interactions with information technology.
The alter-ego Xris and the clan of cyberwitches and eco-priestesses, offer views on anarchival practices, the consumptive relationship of the human species with nature and the cyborgist behaviour already present in our everyday interactions with information technology.
2025
Short Film Collaboration
Forest, Stone, Flesh: Spectral Traces and Bodily Archives
An eco-feminist journey across Dartmoor’s mythical sites ︎
Using the body as a material to access histories, we activate the site of Dartmoor National Park through the process of anarchiving. Anarchiving relates to the idea that sites can be understood as a living archive - as artists we engage with it as such and try to ‘re-alive’ the hidden narratives of sites and imagine alternative realities.
Collaboration between
Nella Piatek x Melissa Schwarz
Project created as part of the Mayes Creative Residency: Creative Inspiration From An Ancient Landscape funded by the Lottery Fund.
Using the body as a material to access histories, we activate the site of Dartmoor National Park through the process of anarchiving. Anarchiving relates to the idea that sites can be understood as a living archive - as artists we engage with it as such and try to ‘re-alive’ the hidden narratives of sites and imagine alternative realities.
Collaboration between
Nella Piatek x Melissa Schwarz
Project created as part of the Mayes Creative Residency: Creative Inspiration From An Ancient Landscape funded by the Lottery Fund.
An ecofeminist and counter-apocalyptic answer to the future of minerals ︎
"Dust and Echoes, or What We Made of Stardust" is an ecofeminist and counter-apocalyptic response to the future of e-waste and consequently, of minerals. The film rejects the prevailing dystopian end-of-the-world narrative and instead speculates about a circle of cyberwitches and eco-priestesses exploring new forms of solidarity with the earth.
Exhibited at:
‘What are Men to Rocks and Mountains’ at P-OST Gallery, Nijmegen Netherlands, July-October 2022
‘Eden Transcends Reality’ at Pushkin House, London UK, July 2024