Kuba Dorabialski
Kuba Dorabialski is an artist and writer originally from Wrocław, Poland. He works primarily in video installation.
He’s interested the intersections of mysticism, radical leftist politics and the personal poetic; his tools are geography, language and cinema history.
Kuba’s work has been exhibited in the US, Europe and Australia and several of his videos are in the Artbank collection. In 2017, he won the John Fries Award with the video installation Floor Dance of Lenin’s Resurrection. In 2019, his work Glasses on My Nosetip won the Open category in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award.
He is currently a PhD candidate at UNSW, Art and Design.
Kuba lives on the intersections of the Garigal, Darramurragal and Gayamaygal land.
All essays by Kuba Dorabialski
Broken English is My Mother Tongue
Someone posted a recording from one of these events, and once again I was horrified; this time by the sound of my voice. It sounded so foreign to me. So Anglo-Australian. I had dropped my guard somewhere along the way and my Broken English had given way to an Art School Anglo-Aussie English with hints of Westie.