During the second day of the Festival we will see 10 performances by Janusz Bałdyga, Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, Aleksandra Kubiak, Aurora Lubos, Tomasz Opania, Joanna Pawlik, Anna Steller, Hubert Wińczyk, Monika Wińczyk, Marta Ziółek.
One of them will be 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐤’𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 “𝐈’𝐦 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞”.
Ableism is a network of systemic beliefs and practices that marginalize and discriminate against people with disabilities, while privileging those without them. It positions the able body and mind as the social, economic, and cultural norm, casting disability as something negative, inferior, and in need of fixing, curing, or eliminating.
Ableist attitudes are rooted in a binary opposition between “able” and “disabled,” with value measured against the standard of a healthy, able, and trained body. These beliefs are often reinforced through stereotypes, media representations, school textbooks, and the continued use of outdated and stigmatising language, such as “cripple,” “invalid,” or “handicapped.”
In her performance I’m Different, I’m Able, Joanna Pawlik addresses the experience of ableist exclusion she encounters daily when navigating public space. Drawing on her many years of living with a physical disability and her artistic practice in visual art and performance, the artist creates a distinctive choreography that highlights the performativity of the disabled body.