DA (doctor of arts) Marija Griniuk has a background in performance art, and performance pedagogy. She is a Lithuanian artist, since 2022 based in Karasjok, during the last decade actively working as a performance artist-researcher in the Nordic region, and since 2022 - in Norway. From 2024 Griniuk is PostDoctoral researcher in performance art at Vilnius Academy of Arts.

The focus on archives is related to my long-standing interest in the formation of postcolonial consciousness and artistic language capable of conveying stories related to the shaping of contemporary society's imagery and emphasizing forgotten traditions as an essential element in our contemporary art history. In my performance artworks I unite archival materials, storytelling and biometric data from my body, remediate into sound and colour.