Member - Dr. Katarzyna Kosmala

 

 

School of Management and Languages,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Email: K.Kosmala@hw.ac.uk
Tel. +44 131 451 3551 Fax: +44 131 451 3296








Researches in visual arts, aesthetics and organizational interface. Research interests encompass critical and interpretative approaches to analyzing issues of identity in contemporary (visual) culture, especially identity formation in the emerging art markets of Central and Eastern Europe.

Currently involved in research on feminism and video art ‘Utopias of [Un]conscious in New Video Installation Art in Baltic Countries: Implications for Mapping Art Criticism in Eastern Europe’

Recent publications on art and organizational interface…

“On the Ways of Being (Un)altered: ‘Little Deaths’ in the Video Installation Art of Hanna Nowicka and Alicja Żebrowska” N.Paradoxa, 15, Scientific Ethics/Aesthetics, January 2005 pp.62-75.

What it Feels Like to Be a Professional Artist in Central and Eastern Europe? Individualised Reality of the Other in Zofia Kulik’s Arts: Insights into Identity Construction’, forthcoming, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 5, 2005

“Insights from Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics On Best Practice in Professional Service Firms: On Perpetual Myth Creation?” (2005), Qualitative Sociology Review, 1(1).

Recent projects:

Co-organisation of stream at APROS Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies 2005 conference,
4-7 December, Melbourne,
Organization and Representation: Organizational Analysis through the Lens of Visual Art, Film and Literature

Recent art reviews:

Little? Inner? Girl? (2005)in Hanna Nowicka Catalogue. Gallery Arsenal Publishing: Bialystok.

Be Yourself and Help Me to Transcend Clichés ! On Relational Ways of Julita Wojcik, ArtMargins 06(2005)

Dystopic femininity in Ene-Liis Semper’s practice, Sekcja Magazyn Artystyczny, 08(2005)

“New Works through Scottish Lens”, This Year's Models: Joy Beecroft
Miranda Blennerhassett Ben Robinson Exhibition, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, February/March 2005

“Breathe Naturally Breathe Locally: Małgorzata Markiewicz”, Contemporary Art Gallery BUNKIER SZTUKI Texts, 2005

“W poszukiwaniu zatraconego wymiaru bytu w nowych pracach Alicji Żebrowskiej” [“In a search of the lost sense of being in new artworks of Alicja Żebrowska”] ARTMIX, Interpretacje March (9)2005.