Author: Agnieszka Chodysz-Foryś

Bounces is a conceptual performance by Anna Steller that responds to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Using the simple gesture of bouncing – set to the music of Ukrainian female rappers – the artist expresses solidarity with those fighting and with the Ukrainian people caught in the midst of war. In the performance, Steller contrasts…

In this work, the artist explores themes of identity and transformation in an unconventional way. This 20-minute narrative is not only a physical manifestation of the performer but also a deep reflection on his inner state and his relationship with the surrounding reality. Through his body, Dziemaszkiewicz expresses his psycho-physical condition “here and now.” The…

The motifs at the core of the performance Carmen figuratum are the eponymous visual poem and the metaphor of the pyramid. Concrete poetry, as a “linguistic” form of intermedia art, naturally aligns with performance. Like almost every utterance, a visual poem enters into spatial relations with gesture and movement whose structure is shaped by the…

Ambulance for Two is an audio-physical performance by the Monster Hurricane Wihajster duo, i.e. Hubert and Monika Wińczyk. It unfolds as a sequence of events that emerge during physical and mental accidents, social and spiritual collapses – a series of snapshots shaped by experiences of closeness and distance, motion and stillness, improvisation, surprise, and precise…

What are you like?Brave.Where is your courage?Here, in my heart.Why else do you need that heart?To love. When I first began working on the subject of domestic violence, I was sometimes told I looked too good and that smiling was inappropriate for someone speaking about hurt. Over the years, however, society’s perception of victims of…

For over a year now, we have been witnessing – through the media – the most documented genocide in history: the suffering, death, and human tragedies of Palestinian women and men in the Gaza Strip. Lament has become a space for mourning for home, region, vanishing landscapes, and for life itself. It is a performance…

One of the performances in the program is Tomasz Opania’s “Lentil, Wheel, Grinds, Mill”. The title of the performance refers to one of the first Polish “shibboleths” and is inspired by Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth, presented at Tate Modern in 2007. Opania constructs an intimate narrative based on the history of his own family, who experienced…

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…

Day 1 of the festival (25.6.2025) will culminate with a sound activity / concert by the Poznań-based duo 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐣𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 (𝐌𝐇𝐖). 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 / 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 / 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐨 𝐗𝟏𝟎𝟖 – 𝟗 𝐩𝐦. sound performance / concert by Monster Huricane Wihajster A couple in life and art. Although their connection dates back to something…

25 June 2025, 6 p.m. Divadlo X10Charvátova 10/39, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫: Piotr Sikora𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬: Agnieszka Chodysz-Foryś, David Helan, Katarzyna Lewandowska, Darja Lukjanenko, Elia Moretti, Eliza Trefas I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone…

The first day of the festival will conclude with a performance by Eduarda Bones & Sara Gut.Dance music has long accompanied movements of resistance to social norms. From tango, disco and house to very contemporary genres from various places around the world, we invite you on a journey, with soft arcs on the dance floor.Eduarda…

It’s an activity that relates to identity and identification and the social “mask.” Focused on revealing and hiding the exposed part of the body. Audience participation very welcome. Thursday / June 20, 2024 / 7 pm / RABRYKA — Joanna Urbańska Born in 2000, she is an artist working mainly in performance art, installation, and…

A vocal exercise in manifesting the current state of emergency. Exploring the possibilities of the human voice, tones of extreme intensity and power.Inviting the audience to participate in a shared experiment, we will embrace the here and now, resonating with each other, and as Donna Haraway suggests: staying with the problem. Thursday / June 20,…

The title is taken from Michael Foedrowitz’s book “One Man Bunker”.“I will make a DIY mobile shelter/bunker for moving around the city. It will be an activity that shows, on the one hand, the current phobias and fears I have personally encountered (especially when talking to people living around Warsaw or in the east of…

The performance will be concerned with the status of anonymous presence, hidden behind a code, the key of which is unknown or known to a few (the initiated). The absence of a sign of identification provokes the creation of myths based on fantasy and longing for a fulfilled expectation. The anonymous hero or anonymous donor…

Jarek Slomski will perform acoustically and sing a song about hiding bad intentions, Polish-German citizenship, the absurdity of presence and Joseph von Eichendorff. Friday / June 21, 2024 / 7 p.m. / RABRYKA — Jarosław Słomski Sculptor and performer, he was born in 1994 in Pyskowice and graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Art…