A sound performance using the voice—glossolalia combined with vocal effects and movement.
A transition from physical comfort and gentle sounds to a looped form of unbearable chaos of sounds and body expression in space.
Trigger warnings: screaming, closeness, use of the body as an object for exploring violence, possible nudity.
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𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐚 „𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐚” 𝐖𝐢𝐧́𝐜𝐳𝐲𝐤
Artist and activist from Poznań, born in 1977. She works individually, in duos (Monster Hurricane Wihajster, Mellin &Wińczyk) and in other personal constellations. Her work is focused on empathy and emancipation of all beings/phenomena and widely understood nature; it is often accompanied by pain, lack of self-acceptance, generational conflict, instability, longing for worship and violence.
She was co-curator of the “Dragon odBity – 8 bitów” Festival of Performance and Sound Experiment (2011) as well as “DIE FENSTER” – Art Movements: Performance, Sound, Movement Festival (2014); she also initiated the following events: Performance Art Jam Session, MHW Recommends and Monoformance in Poznań. She took part in the following festivals and competitions: Spectra of Malingrad, CBL, Urban Observatory (Toruń), Friv (Poznań), V-Day – Days of Excluded Bodies (Poznań), NSK, Sopot Non-Fiction, Queer Fest, OFF:premieres (Poznań), ShakespeareOFF (Gdańsk), Anima Mundi #2, and in projects supporting refugees: Adopt a Vest, Homeless Gallery, Po_sąsiedzku. She has performed in productions of Ofelia_remix, Nomadka, Re_wolta, Ostatnia wieczerza, Wina Pramatki, Stoję na brzegu rzeki, Stormy protest song, and the opera Napój miłosny. She has also directed productions of mono czy stereo? and Try Walking in my Shoes; she is currently working on another play, TEKKK-Ło spada na Ziemię, whose script won the OFF: premiere competition of TeatrÓsmego Dnia.
She co-organized the “black protest” and Manifa – protests in defense of women’s rights in Poznań, as well as the Poland under Construction exhibitions. She is a member of the BVP project of the Caldodecultivo collective and the Climate Camp. In 2022–2023 she participated in Interaction in Culture, a project organized by the Zamek Cultural Center in Poznań. She collaborated with the composer Rafal Zapała on the opera Operka o mizofinii and with the band KakofoNIKT and Jacek Halas on the concert Wszystkie końce świata.
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