Ania Nowak
Crossing #13 - Performance workshop by Ania Nowak
27. 8. 22, noon – 5 p.m.
To the Aching Parts! (Manifesto) is a public speech which dissects the language used by and against queer communities today. Devoid of grammar, the text is subjected to the order and pleasure of rhythm. It relies on historic references to militancy by minorities to address the dangers of normativity and the need for embodied intersectionality when forming queer alliances today. By taking liberty to play around with the language of resentment and trauma, as well as, empathy and healing, it proposes to destabilise identities, practices and well-known acronyms like LGB or FtM for the sake of a queer future we have yet to envisage.
Ania Nowak’s choreographic practice approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can do. She develops formats such as live and video performance, performative exhibition and text. Nowak’s overall inquiry is into the political dimension of body material and its immaterial aspects – affects, feelings and intuition – to think of new, embodied practices of care and companionship.
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- Venue
- Galerie 5020
- Date
- 27. 8. 22, noon – 5 p.m.
Ania Nowak
Ania Nowak approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can and cannot do. Nowak develops formats such as live and video performance, installation and text. In her practice Ania engages with bodies in their nonlinear feeling and thinking capacities to tackle the difficulties of companionship and care in times of perpetual crisis. Her work attempts to reimagine the notions of disorder, pleasure, disease, intimacy, pain, sexuality, class and accessibility as sites of binary-free living. Nowak collaborates with alternative educational programs in Eastern Europe, such as Kem School in Warsaw and the School of Kindness in Sofia. Ania’s works have been presented at Berlinische Galerie, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Akademie der Künste, KW Pogo Bar, Sophiensaele, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Nowy Teatr, Warsaw; 14th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius and 12th Gothenburg Biennial, a.o. Nowak recently held solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Galerie Wedding in Berlin. She lives and works between Berlin and Warsaw.
