DOING THINGS
(IN FRONT OF OTHERS)
// ROBIENIE RZECZY PRZED INNYMI
(2019)
People that I don’t know well are staying at my place. When they are
around I am tensed. I am repeating things, like standing up and looking
at the oven, realizing that my action has no cause I’m coming back to have my tea and when its paper label is squashed in all directions I’m standing up
again...
It is a multimedial performance based on fragility of improvisation and (impersonal)
affect that becomes a common ground for everyone engaged in the
situation. Stretching time, navigating the gaze, generating coincidental encounters
for unexpected feelings to emerge. Performers and visitors together form a collective body that carries out the work of fabulating - primarily by
the fact of being enmeshed (physically and semantically) here and now.
“How to acknowledge the obscure but ubiquitous intensity of impersonal affect?”
Concept: Dorota Michalak, Borys Slowikowski
Choreography & facilitation:
Dorota Michalak
Co-creation, performance & set-up: Dorota Michalak, Borys Slowikowski, Lena Czerniawska & guests (Tio’tia:ke /Montreal: Miri Chekhanovich, Haley Jenkins-Crumb)
PARTNERS
SUPPORTED BY
PERFORMED AT
White Wall Studio - Tio’tia:ke / Montreal (CA), 20.08.2019