Ania Nowak / Bella Ćwir / Suhlisia / Jśa aka Jasia Rabiej / Krzysztof
Crossing #13 - Queers Night Out with Kem School
26. – 27. 8. 22
9 pm–1:30 am
Performance by Ania Nowak (choreograph, PL)
Concert with Bella Ćwir (singer, PL)
Music sets by DJ Jśa, DJ Suhlisia and DJ Krzysztof (PL)
Kem School is a Warsaw-based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure. Their projects are characterised by hybridity and fluidity, blurring the boundaries between art, curating, education, activism, clubbing and community-making practices. It is a community created in the process of collaboration and engagement with the politics of embodiment, feeling and subjectivity in relation to collectivity. Kem experiments with formats and strengthens queer, feminist and anti-racist artistic practices and discourses.
Information
- Venue
- Galerie 5020
- Date
- 26. – 27. 8. 22
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.
Bella Ćwir
Bella Ćwir is a vocalist and musician living and working in Warsaw. She explores and redefines what it means to be a pop star, both in her solo project and with her band Rock AngelZ. She's swag!
Suhlisia
Suhlisia is a Polish-Cameroonian artist based in Warsaw. Suhlisia offers sets as guided journeys into a chaotic interiority. With abrupt shifts in mood, the artist systematically thwarts our expectations with a cunning play on transitions and durations. Through the distortion and dissection of vocal elements, afrobeats, dubstep, pop and visual-kei sounds, Suhlisia reconstructs dense and dynamic tapes like transparent collages. Dedicated to the transposition of their "dreamlike experience of reality", the sets sparkle with a fine irony.
Jasia Rabiej
Jśa aka Jasia Rabiej is a Polish-born-and-raised, Berlin-based music producer, DJ and artist. In 2021 she released her debut album entitled Enter My House on Shanghai's Genome 6.66 bpm.
Krzysztof
Krzysztof is a Warsaw-based artist, music producer and DJ working across film, sound and performance. He's a co-founder and member of Kem, a queer and feminist group based in Warsaw, and co-curates W Brzask (At Dawn), a series of experimental music events in the gardens of Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture in Warsaw.