photo: Magdalena Siwicka
Born in NYC, USA, 1985 to Polish immigrants, Michelle Tylicki is
an artist and activist based between London and Lisbon. She studied experimental film at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic
(2007) and graduated with a Master of Arts degree from ASP Gdańsk, Poland (2010). Since her thesis on ‘Art and Activism’, she has contributed to local, national and international
campaigns focusing on radical system change. Her work promotes climate justice, animal rights, food sovereignty, racial justice, disability rights, ending blasphemy laws, sex workers' rights, and reshaping the world
as an anarchist utopia. She often takes part in creative direct action on the frontlines of these activist movements. In her art, Tylicki creates subversive graphic design to
critique advertising (subvertising), utopian illustration for grassroots collectives, and short films about creative direct actions. She also explores physical theatre, producing and
directing a climate clown wrestling troupe, and installation work, like the antifascist catapult and fridge full of 'humanely slaughtered' human meat'. She lectures subvertising history and skill
shares DIY aspects of ad-hacking.
@shelkadelic