Ania Nowak

Name: Crossing #13 – Performance workshop by Ania Nowak
Start: 2022-08-27T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-08-27T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Galerie 5020

Crossing #13 - Performance workshop by Ania Nowak

27 August 2022 / 12–5 pm CEST

Galerie 5020

Credits: Pat Mic, This is an exhibition

To the Aching Parts! (Manifesto) is a public speech which dissects the language used by and against queer communities today. Devoid of grammar, the text is subjected to the order and pleasure of rhythm. It relies on historic references to militancy by minorities to address the dangers of normativity and the need for embodied intersectionality when forming queer alliances today. By taking liberty to play around with the language of resentment and trauma, as well as, empathy and healing, it proposes to destabilise identities, practices and well-known acronyms like LGB or FtM for the sake of a queer future we have yet to envisage.

Ania Nowak’s choreographic practice approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can do. She develops formats such as live and video performance, performative exhibition and text. Nowak’s overall inquiry is into the political dimension of body material and its immaterial aspects – affects, feelings and intuition – to think of new, embodied practices of care and companionship.

Limited number of places.
Please register here: office@summeracademy.at

Ania Nowak’s choreographic practice approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can do. She develops formats such as live and video performance, performative exhibition and text. Nowak’s overall inquiry is into the political dimension of the body material and its immaterial aspects -affects, feelings and intuition- to think of new, embodied practices of care and companionship. She is especially interested in the latter when taking into account the unstable, transnational character of our lives and labor in the Western world today, accessibility, sexuality and sickness, as well as, ethics of pleasure in times of climate and political urgency. Nowak’s works were presented at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlinische Galerie, Akademie der Künste and Sophiensæle in Berlin; Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, the Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius and M HKA Antwerp a.o. She is a lecturer and mentor at Berlin University of the Arts and Kem School Warsaw. Nowak lives and works in Berlin.