Marie Lukáčová

Marie Lukáčová

Czech Republic (residence) 

research interests: artistic research, art practice, feminism, experimental music, drawings, animation, narrative

Marie Lukáčová  is a painter, animator, director, rapper and co-founder of the feminist group Fourth Wave, which opened a debate on the topic of sexism at Czech universities. She works mainly with the medium of video and video installation, with her films reinterpreting characters borrowed from politics, mythology, geology or science. They move across different temporal planes and locations and address questions of an uncertain future through specific narratives and poetics. 

In 2019 she was a finalist in the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. At present she is a lecturer at the Centre for Audiovisual Studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).

Research

The doctoral project The Pre-filled Oracle of the Cheap Eye explores the visual capabilities of technology - its illusion of reality and extensions into the human body. It explores the generically produced image as a tool for the production and control of desire in the flow of global capital, as well as its effect on the human body. The project mixes technoscientific insights with the study of appropriative strategies of feminist art, which the artist then applies to her upcoming film project Orla.