MESHWORKING IN PLANTHROPO-SCENE
MY APPROACH
I’ve been exploring embodied communication and transmedia poetics since childhood. It all began with an attempt to start a girl band with an elementary school friend, spending hours gazing at the stars and the clay soil, engaging in lengthy sessions of existential reflection on a swing, and organizing mediations between friends.
Twenty years later.
Drawing on the notion of animacy as relational becoming, I work on the margins of late-capitalist society, developing what I call meshwork choreography. It reflects my innate need to find connections and resonances between everything, including seemingly distant matters such as cellular communication, party cultures, and old songs.
Meshwork choreography refuses the separation of artistic work from its relationscapes: organizational culture, socio-political context, perceptual sensitivity, infrastructure and the ethics of collaboration within the more-than-human sociality. It is a simultaneously social and artistic process in which the conditions of making are not background but constitutive of the work itself.
As I shift attention from product to process of co-creation and reception, acknowledging the soft power of co-inciding and co-creating atmosphere (invisible, intersubjective efforts, emotional intelligence and soft skills), my work encompasses mutually inspiring activities: CHOREOGRAPHIC (FIELD) RESEARCH + CREATION, TEACHING + FACILITATING, ORGANIZING + CURATING.
Addressing attention and sensory politics, my projects explore how focus can be redirected inward, toward embodied knowledges, and outward, toward shared intimacy, ambience, and synergy. I experiment with formats that facilitate deep dives into tissular fantasies, strengthening a sense of reciprocity and relation both with one's own body and with a (more-than-human) community, exposed from molecular perspective.
I dance to attune to what is already here, strangely unfamiliar, on micro scales, in the openings and cracks, in unsettling resonances, in multitudes and depths. I focus on culture as biology and the vascularity of systems that connect personal histories with geo-politics, grounded in deep listening as physical❤️🔥, ethical and political involvement. Tangibility of voice, impersonal affect, cellular empathy, kinaesthetic engagement, embodied musicality, tissular fantasies – I use these monstrous tools to enhance “czułość”/[ˈʧ̑uwɔɕʨ̑] in polish: receptivity with its technological connotations, sensitivity and tenderness/, unleash imagination, and sharpen attention, necessary to meticulously delve into the living archive - the processual body with its inherited knowledges, hybridity and prosthesis.
I draw from culture of rural Eastern Europe as a critical tool for rethinking the present - taking seriously a well-known disco-polo lyrics: “Ciało do ciała, usta do ust i nigdy więcej nie smuć się już”/Body to body, lips to lips and don’t be sad ever again/. Returning to folk heritage while processing inherited shame, I work with dance as a cathartic, rebellious and relation-building practice, shifting attention towards its tactile, musical and energetic aspects. Practices of dancing and musicking, their various aesthetic qualities and induced pleasures, are forms of collective knowledge and ways of sensing into reality. In this spirit, I use performing arts as a way of engaging the power, and sensitivity, of collective attunement.
I see my work as alternative social reproduction, generating space for collective involvement, unexpected encounters, embodied knowledges, and glocal solidarities - navigating across institutional and bottom-up contexts and insisting on dialogue between diverse knowledge-holding entities.