Martyna Ewa Majewska
Art Historian. Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
at The University of Manchester.
Martyna Ewa Majewska
Art Historian. Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
at The University of Manchester.
About me
I’m an art historian studying intersections between performance art and lens-based media. I specialise in postwar US art.
My PhD—completed in 2022 at the University of St Andrews—explored how African American artists active since the late 1960s have mobilised performance for the camera to expose the limits of visual performativity, and how they challenged the prevalent interpretations of embodied performance as an introspective, autobiographical mode of art making. I am currently working on a book based on my doctoral research.
My new research looks at recent artist-led group performances organised in historically significant locations across the United States. I’m interested in reenactments, site-specific group performances, as well as exploring the images such projects generate as forms of speculative commemoration and as interventions into the American monumental landscape.
