Dr. Aneta Panek is a Berlin
based film maker and performance artist, working mainly in the
fields of performance, opera, and film. Recurrent themes
include alchemy, transmutation, subversion and rebellion as
means of self-discovery. Her work, based on other knowledge and
performative research, is about the necessity of visualization
and associative speculation in formulating and deconstructing
theories and questioning reality. She studied art history in
Paris. She gained her practice-based PhD at the design faculty
of the University of Arts Berlin. Her research is concerned
with transgression, subversion and poetry in the punk
avant-gardes. In her book “Alchemy of Punk”, she explores the
extremely heterogeneous manifestations of the rebellious and
irritating forms of artistic expression that are summarized as
punk. While her practice culminates in experimental
film, she also stages live performances, writes analytical
texts, new poetry and fiction, to challenge the existing norms
of performing knowledge.