performance
improvisation

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?”


Jane Bennett · Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things

CREDITS
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
ECHO HOUSE in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal

White Wall Studio in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal

SUPPORTED BY
HZT Berlin

ada Studio in Berlin

PROMOS by DAAD (visit at SenseLab)

Adam Mickiewicz Institute

PERFORMED AT
Soirée Perfo,
White Wall Studio - Tio’tia:ke / Montreal (CA), 20.08.2019


Working with the obvious, ECHO HOUS - Tio’tia:ke / Montreal (CA), 14 & 19.08.2019

NAH DRAN, ada Studio - Berlin (DE), 9-10.02.2019