𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐣𝐭𝐲𝐬. 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬

The first performance will be “𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬” 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐣𝐭𝐲𝐬.

The performance I propose is a visual essay on spinning within a loop of cognitive dissonance — in a reality where exploitation remains the dominant force. This minimalist performative gesture becomes a form of thinking in crisis — a crisis that extends beyond individual experience and manifests collectively as an echo of the systemic fracture of contemporary existence.

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬 is a space where past and present intertwine in the toxic embrace of post-feudal and capitalist structures — the same structures that, despite the passage of centuries, continue to shape relations of power, language, and our ways of being in the world. In their shadow, mechanisms of subjugation persist, masked by appearances of care, equality, or progress.

As Silvia Federici emphasizes, these mechanisms have not disappeared. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism continues to exploit reproductive labor, control bodies, and perpetuate symbolic violence. In this context, the body becomes a site of tension between the emancipatory gesture and the return to hierarchical order — between the desire for freedom and the habit of submission, between the impulse to resist and the internal reproduction of power.

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𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐣𝐭𝐲𝐬 is a visual artist and performance practitioner whose work explores the intersections of corporeality, biology, cultural identity, and the exclusion of vulnerable individuals from society. Her performances often confront existential thresholds and liminal conditions. She has participated in numerous performance art festivals across Poland, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Canada, the USA, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Greenland.

Kalwajtys studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk from 1999 to 2005, graduating from the Intermedia Studio led by Professor Grzegorz Klaman. Between 2004 and 2007, she continued her education in Intermedia at the University of the Arts in Poznań, earning her diploma with distinction under the guidance of Professor Jan Berdyszak (Sculpture and Spatial Actions Studio) and Professor Izabella Gustowska (Performance and Multimedia Studio). In 2006, she studied at the Department of Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 2015, she received a PhD in Fine Arts for her doctoral project BBL. Bios – The Body Laboratory.

She also holds postgraduate qualifications in psychology from the University of Warsaw (2020) and in art therapy with elements of pedagogical therapy from the Maria Grzegorzewska University (2023).