Dr Agata Lulkowska

• MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
• Society for Artistic Research
• BAFTSS - British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
• IAFVC - International Association For Visual Culture
• RAI - Royal Anthropological Institute Student Fellow
• LASA - Latin American Studies Association
• RPS - Royal Photographic Society (expired)
• SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies
• WISPS - Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American Studies
• AHGBI - Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland
• Corkscrew – Practice-based research network at Birkbeck
• CMSRN - Communications & Media Studies Research Network

SELECTED FILM & VIDEO WORK

• The Voice of Sierra Nevada, 2017, (research documentary; digital)
• H-Air, 2015, (Video Installation)
• We Are Yanesha, 2012, (research documentary; digital)
• Closer, 2009, installation
• Unspoken, 2007, (short; digital)
• Live is Always a Choice, 2007, (fake documentary; digital)
• Life was brutal once, 2002, (documentary; digital)
• La vie en rose, 2002, (documentary; digital)
• Berthe, 2002, (short; 35mm)

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

• 2020: Recipient of the International Award for Excellence for the Journal of Communication and Media Studies
• 2018: shortlisted for one of the scholarships for Young Researchers granted by the scientific committee of the IV International Congress of Visual Culture by the International Community of Visual Culture
• 2018: AHGBI conference support grant
• 2017: SLAS Conference Grant
• 2015: CILAVS Travel Grant for the fieldwork in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
• 2014: Santander Travel Bursary
• 2014: Postgraduate Travel Award by Society for Latin American Studies
• 2012: AHGBI/Spanish Embassy Travel Award
• 2011: Premio Bertelli for the photography project ‘Little Treasures’, Bologna
• 2010: Postgraduate Travel Award by Society for Latin American Studies
• 2006: European Commission prize for the ‘Almost Like Home’ educational project and solo photographic exhibition, London in collaboration with teenagers of Polish origins and Ilford Park Polish Home

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• 7th International Conference on Professional & Practice-Based Doctorates: The Role of Practice in Doctoral Degrees, 23-26 February 2021, Middlesex University London, UK Council for Graduate Education
• Sixth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, 7-8 October 2021, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• New Directions in the Humanities: Transcultural Humanities in a Global World, Venice, July 2020; Paper: Local research with global consequences: Transcultural practice-based research
• MeCCSA Brighton, January 2020, Paper: Voice of the voiceless: agency and power struggles of indigenous filmmakers and their intercultural audiences
• Eleventh Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations: Dialogs in Transition: Luso-Hispanic Cultural Production and Global South Exchanges, 9th May 2019, Poland, Warsaw
• V International Congress on Visual Culture; 15-16 April 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Congress' theme: Latin America from the Image: Historical Narrative and Visual Culture
• Third International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, 18–19 October 2018, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Presented paper: Indigenous Filmmaking with Mainstream Ambitions: Intercultural Communication Transcending Established Order
• 2nd International Conference Photography and Academic Research: Images in Post-Truth Era; 6-8 September 2018, Birkbeck, London; Presented Paper: Image re-enactions in the Arhuaco self-representation practices
• International Congress on Visual Culture; 28-29 May 2018, Rome; Accepted Paper: Audio-Visual Self-Representation As An Intercultural Communication - Indigenous Filmmaking For Mainstream Audiences
• Latin American Studies Association Congress (LASA2018), May 23 - 26, Barcelona, Spain; Accepted Paper: 'Colombian Indigenous Filmmaking through European eyes’
• AHGBI (The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland) 2008 Annual Conference, 26-28 March, Leeds; Presented paper: ‘Indigenous filmmakers with mainstream ambitions: Creating a digital archive of the Arhuaco heritage’
• SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies) Annual Conference, 22-23 March 2018, University of Southampton; Presented paper: ‘The Arhuacos in a different light – a comparative study of the approach from Colombia and the UK’
• International Conference: Border Subjects/Global Hispanisms; 24-25 November 2017; Presented paper: ‘Transcending the borders of indigenous filmmaking in Colombia’
• MediAsia: The Asian Conference on Media, Communication and Film; 27-29 October 2017, Kobe, Japan; Presented paper: ‘Representing interculturally on the example of indigenous filmmaking in Colombia’
• La Paz es Ahora? Examining the question of Peace and Violence in Colombia; Newcastle University, 29th September 2018; Presented paper: ‘Narratives of violence through the indigenous eyes - Arhuaco filmmaking as a response to forced displacement’
• Student conference Birkbeck, University of London, May 2016. Fieldwork report from filming in Colombia, Sept 2015 - Jan2016
• RAI Anthropology and Photography Conference, British Museum, May 2014, London. Presented paper: ‘Photographer in the field: collaborative visual work as a research methodology to investigate Indigenous self-representation practices in Colombia’
• SLAS annual conference, April 2014, Birkbeck, London. Presented paper: ‘Colombian Dream comes true, or the emergence of new Colombian cinema’
• Student conference 2014, Birkbeck, University of London
• SLAS Annual Conference, April 2013, Manchester. Presented paper: ‘Researching visual representations of the Indigenous Identities’ for the ‘Fieldwork, Art, Science: Issues on Audio-Visual Based Research’ panel
• Between Bodies 2013 conference, Dublin. Presented paper: ‘Photography and touch - relation between body senses and photographic image’
• Travel Seminars, Oxford, November 2011. Presented paper: ‘Direct travel experience versus photography storytelling’

CONFERENCE CHAIRING

• Politics – Documentary and Photojournalism Panel at 2nd International Conference Photography and Academic Research: Images in Post-Truth Era; 6-8 September 2018, Birkbeck, London

• Politics / Art – Truth and Colonialism Panel at 2nd International Conference Photography and Academic Research: Images in Post-Truth Era; 6-8 September 2018, Birkbeck, London (invitation)

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS

• Tokyo International Art Fair: 22-23 May 2015 at the Quest Hall, in Tokyo, Japan

• Barcelona Showcase: Casa Battló, 27 April 2013

• ‘Stolen Gazes’: solo exhibition of the research photography: Peltz Room, Birkbeck, 22 April-7th May 2013

• Showcase Cities: London, 20th February 2013, Richmix

• Amsterdam, Oude Kerk, 1st December 2012

• Paris: Art in Capital, Grand Palais, 28 November - 2nd December 2012

• Bologna: Trevisarte: Little Treasures: October-November 2012

• Showcase Cities: London, 18th April 2012, Richmix, London

• Barcelona, Casa Battló, December 2011

• Showcase Cities: London, 24th August 2011, Richmix

• Showcase Cities: London, 26th January 2011, Richmix

• Showcase Cities: London, 2 June 2010, Richmix

• Almost like Home, Copleston Centre, London, 2005

PhD (Practice-based, including a documentary film); Birkbeck, University of London, School of Arts, Thesis title: “The Arhuacos, film, and the politics of representing the ‘Other’ in Colombia”;
Film title: ‘The Voice of Sierra Nevada’;
MA in Film Direction (unfinished); Kieslowski Film School, Silesian University
MA in Film and Media Studies; Jagiellonian University
1st Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Media Arts; London South Bank University

Practice-based research, Non-fiction film, ethnographic film, short features, experimental film, art photography, intercultural communication, installations, politics of representation, the Other, festivals and exhibitions.

Practice as research, Film Theory and Practice, Non-Fiction Film, Experimental Film, Audio-visual Storytelling, Intercultural Communication, Indigenous Film, Collaborative Filmmaking, World Cinema, Film Festivals.

Upcoming Invited talks:

• UCL Practice-based Research seminar series; presentation title: Taming your inner artist – challenges of creative practice-based research. 1^st December 2021
• UKRI ECR Forum Member Webinar, 8^th June 202: Decolonising local knowledge
  through practice-based collaborative research
• Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia, 27^th September 2021: Seminar on Indigenous Audiovisual creation processes, presented talk: Decolonising local knowledge through practice-based collaborative research

Upcoming conference presentations:

• Seventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, National University of Ireland Galway, 25-26 August 2022

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• External consultancy for VUE Cinemas (Since September 2020)
• WednesdayWisdom webinar: Film on Demand, 20th May 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwhDxEgfrI8&feature=youtu.be
• My project features on the European Association for Digital Humanities website: http://eadh.org/projects/arhuacos-film-and-politics-representing-other-colombia
• Artistic Director for the 10th Discovering Latin America Film Festival in London in Collaboration with Tate Modern
• Invited Talk: Colombian Indigenous Films, Muxima, 22nd May 2016 (http://muxima.co.uk/colombian-indigenous-films-22nd-may/)
• Invited Talk: ‘Flickering Darkness’ - presentation and panel discussion at Birkbeck Cinema alongside with artist Juan delGado and Andrés David Montenegro Rosero, History of Art Teaching Fellow, University College London; https://vimeo.com/139346851
• Organised a special retrospective of Colectivo Zhigoneshi’s works at Birkbeck University, London and Q&A with Charlotte Gleghorn, Chancellor’s Fellow, Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh,
• Organised Tate Film: Luis Ospina and Grupo de Cali retrospective, Tate Modern, 28-29 November 2014; http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/44537
• Co-organised two editions of Arts Week, Birkbeck, University of London
• Co-organised ‘Thinking Visually: Iberian and Latin American Images in Practice and Research’, Birkbeck

• Non-Fiction Film Production
• Film Practice: Processes and Deconstruction
• Film Production Processes
• Negotiated Film Project Research, Analysis and Communication
• Design Futures
• Directing and Producing
• Final Year Project and Dissertation

Articles

• Interdisciplinary approach in art/practice-based PhDs in film: scopes for experimentation – in preparation for submission (Journal of Media Practice and Education)
• Recontextualising Practice-Based Research in Creative Arts and Media – in preparation for submission in the International Journal of Creative Media Research
• ‘Whose impact is it? Decolonised approach in intercultural communication and creative methods in practice-based research’. In: Media Practice and Education Special Issue on Impact. Published in April 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25741136.2022.2056791
• Book Review: The Invention of Creativity. Modern Society and the Culture of the New by Andreas Reckwitz, translated by Steven Black, Cambridge, UK; Malden, USA, Polity Press, 2017, In: Cultural Trends, Routledge. Published in October 2021, (https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2021.1986368)
• Book review: Women in Iberian Filmic Culture, edited by Elena Cordero-Hoyo and Begoña Soto-Vázquez, In: Studies in European Cinema, Routledge. Published in May 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2022.2073770.
• Interdisciplinary approaches for decolonising practice-based Filmmaking programmes in Higher Education – in preparation for submission in: Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies
• Peer-Reviewed: ‘Decolonising Local knowledge – Arhuaco Filmmaking as a Form of Cultural Oposition’, in: Art, Visuality & Indigenity in unsubmissive Key. Cuadernos de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas; Vol. 16 N.2, 2021, Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogota, Colombia, published in July 2021, (https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.mavae16-2.dlka)

• Peer-reviewed: ‘Decolonising local knowledge - Arhuaco filmmaking as a form of cultural opposition’ in: Art, Visuality & Indigenity in unsubmissive Key. Cuadernos de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas (Journal of Music, Visual and Performing Arts); Vol. 16 N.2, 2021, Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogota, Colombia (forthcoming)
• Peer-reviewed: ‘Intercultural communication and decolonial strategies in the Arhuaco filmmaking and collaborations’, together with a documentary ‘The Voice of the Sierra Nevada’, in: AnthroVision SI: Epistemic Disobedience: Transcultural and Collaborative Filmmaking as a Decolonial Option (Published: November 2020) https://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/5872
• Peer-reviewed: ‘Voice of the Arhuacos: Transcending the borders of ‘indigenous’ filmmaking in Colombia’, in: The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, Common Ground Research Networks; published in April 2019 (DOI: 10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/v04i02/45-52)
• Peer-reviewed: ‘A Photographer in the field – art photography versus research image-making’ in: Journal for Artistic Research; pending resubmission
• Peer-reviewed: ‘Photography and touch - translating real-life experience into visual storytelling’ in: The International Journal of the Image; pending resubmission

Books

• Forthcoming (2023) Practice-based research for Filmmakers, Routledge
• In preparation (pre-agreed by Routledge): Taming your inner Artist: Practice-based research in filmmaking, moving image and photography.

• Peer reviewed: ‘Politics of representation, contexts of dissemination, and the indigenous communicators in Colombia’; accepted book publication by the Common Ground Research Network

Book Series

• Practice-Based Research in the Arts – exploring your research potential within creative practice, co-edited with Sharon Coleclough, Intellect, forthcoming

Book Chapters

• ´Sexuality and solitude in contemporary French cinema’ in: ‘Reżyserki Kina. Tradycja i współczesność’, edited by Małgorzata Radkiewicz’, Rabid, Krakow

Journals:

• Special Issue on Practice-based research which I am editing for the International Journal Of Creative Media Research

Other

• In peer review: Media Practice and Education Special Issue: Whose impact is it? Decolonised approach in intercultural communication and creative methods in practice-based research.

• A love Letter to Cinema – and how films help us get through difficult times; The Conversation, June 2020; https://theconversation.com/a-love-letter-to-cinema-and-how-films-help-us-get-through-difficult-times-139438
• New Ways of Seeing - Art and Science Heading Towards the Future (Wiley Researchers online; March 2020; https://www.wiley.com/network/researchers/the-future-of-research/new-ways-of-seeing-art-and-science-heading-towards-the-future)
• Parasite: at last the Oscars jumps the ‘one-inch’ subtitles barrier; The Conversation, February 2020; https://theconversation.com/parasite-at-last-the-oscars-jumps-the-one-inch-subtitles-barrier-131576
• ‘An Oscar for Parasite? The global rise of South Korean film’, the Conversation UK https://theconversation.com/an-oscar-for-parasite-the-global-rise-of-south-korean-film-128595
• ‘Representing inter-culturally on the example of indigenous filmmaking of Colombia’ in MediAsia2017 Proceedings Online https://papers.iafor.org/submission38248/
• ‘Direct travel experience versus photography storytelling’ published at the Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources blog https://aclaiirblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/direct-travel-experience-versus-photography-storytelling/