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I use drawing in my art and research projects. It’s an excellent method of catching the fieldwork reality with its atmosphere, experiencing and thinking. My drawing it’s mixed with collages and comics and is a line full of expression.
But the most important for me is the performative aspect of drawing, the practice as a body, mind and imagination engagement.

RAI Film Festival 2021,
In P21Crisis through comics: a roundtable discussion on graphic anthropology.
“Anarchistic potential of ethnographic illustration” - video performance.

SIEF2019: Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World. Spain, Santiago de Compostella, 2019.
Disc06 Tracking the creative process: conversations in art-making and academic research.
“Ethnographic sketches. Sensual excursion” - performative workshop.

The Graphic Anthropology Field School (GrAFs17) Malta, Gozo, 2017.
Two weeks in the fieldwork, exchange the experiences and idea with other ethnographers.

EASA2016: Anthropological legacies and human futures
Ethnographic drawing - less than looking, more than dancing. Workshop.




One of my fascinations is working with found photographs and video footage, from bazaars, eBay and dumpsters.
I have dozens of different photographic and film images in my collection: single photos and those arranged in albums, slides and prints, amateur films and forgotten documents on 16 mm film. Sometimes I try to get to the source, imagining who took them and under what circumstances. Sometimes I rearrange their origins and format and put together a new story. Some photos invite you to become their story.





During several trips to Podolia (Ukraina), I created a documentary movie about herbal practices in everyday life: the healthy teas and plants in the kitchen, the kids playing with plants, wildflowers on the skirts and in cars, flowers in the architecture, politics and others. It was so interesting. Yes, knowledge about herbs is very important in Ukraine and is an element of national heritage. Even little kids know how to prepare tea for the stomach or what to use for a broken finger.
The movie was screened at the Botanical Garden in Warsaw and at Ethnographic Movie Festival "Etno in Eye", in Warsaw.
Video from ethnobotanical research in Ukraine, directed by PhD Iwa Kołodziejska from Warsaw University.









I love walking.
Everywhere, in the city, the forest, seaside and mountains too. I spend many hours walking little streets and dark backyard, crossing avenues and catching the fresh air in the parks. The same in the wild nature. I’m a walker.

Sarah Pink compare walking to drawing:
«Walking with video as a practice of making a line: the researcher and the participant walk – in a way akin to what Ingold calls ‘wayfaring’».


















Series of video chronicles about everyday life in Podlasie.

"Wandering tales" (org. wędrujące opowieści) was taken in Podlasie, eastern Poland. The project combines cultural animation with ethnography. Our inspiration represents the Gypsy culture, in which we notice a disappearing model of life and a symbol of freedom. The particular motive of the work was the gift exchange between the inhabitants and the animators: we were given a cultural event, and the locals presented his fairy tale, music and stories. Project were created and coordinated by Agata Hummel and Weronika Brączek. As an invited artist, I realised a series of video chronicles about everyday life in Podlasie.





Those apples
video chronicle


These Apples from Jacek Wajszczak on Vimeo.



Ewa and Romek work as farmers, breed horses and also have an apple collection point. During the season, sacks of fruit land on the scales placed in front of the house. They are brought by local resident – by car for 5 tons or, like kids from a village, one sack on a mountain bike. Apples from Podlasie are processed into concentrate and later exported to the Netherlands. For bringing a bag of apples, kids get a few pence, but as they say, it's ok. It's a short impression about young peoples, work, market and money. The movie made a great impression on the main characters – Mrs Ewa and Mr Romek’s sons.


BEBEGU is an original project that was created after a birth of me first daughter. With my wife we share here interesting books for children, how you can spend time with your baby on the go, but we also show how you can creatively enjoy your time with the babies. We offer some fun, illustrations and other surprises. I invite you, not just with your toddler!



One of our work is Remix of the kids book.




For more, please click here.


As an improvising drum musician, I took part in several days of workshops and a final concert in the project X JUBILEE PURCHASE OF NEW AND USED SOUNDS - THE REPUBLIC OF SOUND - ARCHIPELAG ANDRIESSEN.






Jerzy Kornowicz - artistic director, conductor
Marcin Bożek - bass guitar
Ewa Cichoń - flute, vocal
India Czajkowska - flute, vocal
Inga Dembowska - vocal
Tomasz Gadecki - saxophone
Marta Grzywacz - vocal
Mariusz Kamać - matalophone
Jakub Kasznia - trumpet
Krzysztof Knittel - electronic media
Yann Konopka - accordion
Andrzej Król - hurdy-gurdy
Marcin Krzyżanowski - cello el.
Ryszard Latecki - trumpet
Mieczysław Litwiński - violin, vocal
Małgorzata Maciejewska - baraban
Piotr Mełech - clarinet
Tedeusz Sudnik - electronic media
Jędrek Skajster - piano
Jacek Wajszczak - percussion
Adam Wasążnik - bass guitar
Tadeusz Wielecki - double bass
Wojciech Więckowski - guitar
Piotr Wojciechowski - darabuka, drum
Ksawery Wójciński - double bass
Hubert Zemler - drums
Agnieszka Zielińska - piano
Barbara Żach - berimbau, vocal
Adam Kruk - graphic design

Andrzej Kijanowski - sound engineering
Ewa Guziołek - Tubelewicz - sound engineering
Adam Kruk - graphics, filming

Polish Society for Contemporary Music, Polish Radio Programme 2

Subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project is co-financed by the City of Warsaw and ZAiKS


Five days of workshop and final concert in Polish Radio Studio. Thanks for this great musical meeting!
 
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