Jagna Nawrocki’s performance is a continuation of her research around queer kinship practices and the desire to extend oneself with other bodies, which she calls “longing to be long.” The author will explore voice as a part of the body and eating as a practice of mutation and transformation from the belly of the world. The whole thing is a ritual of reclaiming meat and restoring its voice to tell stories of insubordination, cooked in a decoction of facts, fantasy and memory that blurs the boundaries of past and future.
The artist will work with her body, voice and… the pot in which she will cook the smells. We will hear a song from a magic wound, murmuring from a hole, a hellish silence. We will see prophecy, foreshadowing and the presence of absence.
Tuesday / Oct 1, 2024 / 3.30 pm / GAFU
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Jagna Nawrocka
Multimedia artist, performer, choreographer, and movement researcher born in 1996. She graduated from the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław in 2019 and the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz in 2024. She studied dance at the Academy of Physical Education in Poznań, and completed the Experimental Choreography course at the Centrum w Ruchu and the Kem School in Warsaw. Her artistic practice explores choreographic strategies through the use of camera, text, fabric, drawing, sculpture and performance. She focuses on the medium of movement scores as a tool for organizing coexistence and archiving the invisible. Involved in speculative (post)art projects, she works with somatic imagination and the formation of collective knowledge in the exchange of sensory experience. She explores queer kinship practices, manifestations of the body of desire, the voice of disobedience and gestures of love in the face of crisis. Jagna is a member of the Queer Movement Academy and co-creator of the radio program SCORE ME QUEER, broadcast on Radio Kapitał. She has performed at Komuna Warszawa, Scena Robocza Poznań, PLATO Ostrava, Floating in Berlin, Brera Academy in Milan. As a Culture Moves Europe grantee, she participated in the ATLAS residency and performed at the ImPulsTanz 2023 festival in Vienna. In 2023 she started a participatory performative project called Longing to be Long, developing a film in collaboration with the Łódź Film School.
photo Domi Depowsk
