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Jes Hanzelkova
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︎︎︎  Visual Index
︎︎︎  Written Index   

  1. Whitewash
  2. Alienated City
  3. Artifacts of No-Place
  4. Fever Dream
  5. RA:X Puncta
  6. Prototypica_
  7. Presently
  8. Window Display
  9. Maison Boréal
  10. Jane & Finch
  11. MLC
  12. Design-Build
  13. No-Place Manifesto
  14. She Reacted...  
  15. Futurist Anarchaeologies
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©2025 Jes Hanzelkova
Jes Hanzelkova




Jes [she/they] is an interdisciplinary designer and performance artist trained in architecture.





                         



Jes is of mixed Czech-Cantonese-Vietnamese heritage, a student and board member with Vancouver Cantonese Opera, the Editorial Co-Lead at Chinatown Today, and an intern architect with the Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC).

The fields and theories that influence her work include trauma-informed design, living heritage, anarchism, ornamentalism, somatic movement, critical studies, and feminist new materialism. Her artistic practice circles identity and embodiment through their racialized, gendered, and artificial edges: the fuzzy space between subject/object, ornament/human, and body/image. Her work has recently been shown at Vancouver Central Library & Granville Island as part of All Over the Map by New Works Dance [2026], Luna Arts Festival [2025], Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space [2022], Design at Riverside Gallery [2022], the Art Gallery of Mississauga [2022], Stackt Market [2021], and the Art Gallery of Peterborough [2020]. 

Currently reading: Trauma-Informed Design: A Framework for Designers, Architects, and Other Practitioners, Edited by: C.A.A.Cowart, J.E.Roche, A.Erdman, Dr. J. Davis Harte

Also orbiting: Ornamentalism [think: A.Cheng, T.Minh-ha, A.Suparak] | Feminism & Feminist New Materialism [think: R.Braidotti, L.Russell, S.de Beauvoir A.Tsing, D.Haraway] | Somatics, Critical Studies, Anarchism/Democracy [R.Menakem, P.Freire, G.Deleuze, J.Tronto, A.Lorde, D.Graeber]