Category: artistic leadership
Morgue Polonaise
Upcoming show: 18 April 2026, Grotowski Institute, Wrocław (PL) The community needs its dead to connect with the land. We find them in various places: in cemeteries, in street names, history textbooks, costume dramas, or as patrons of schools. A Polish-sounding surname on a foreign gravestone catches our eye: further proof of the country’s existence.…
Freak show – film
Premiere – 9 May 2026, Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Warsaw What happens when the ‘freaks’ take centre stage? A group of young artists with disabilities, invited by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, are creating a provocative “freak show” for the opening of the museum’s new premises. Their original reinterpretation of the…
Can you help me?
“His grandmother’s recollections of how Pawlak learned to crawl as a child are not a tearful account of a childhood burdened by disability, but rather a spirited tale. The actor, however, is constantly playing with the audience. Will he strike a chord? Or won’t he? He does both. And much more besides.” Anna Szamotuła, Kultura…
Freak show – performance
Is it possible to express sadness against the dominant ideologies of bodypositive and inspiration porn? How to build pride in what is socially accepted as an image of failure? And – how to skilfully ‘mutilate’ popular cultural clichés that set the social optics against all otherness? Freak show or performative mutilation of culture. But not…
Crip networking / KPO Scholarship
Project Professionalisation and artistic development of the Polish sector of artists with disabilities in the performing arts. A series of meetings and workshops for the Polish community of artists with disabilities working in the field of performing arts, aimed at professionalising their activities, increasing the internationalisation of their artistic practice but also enhancing their professional…
Do what you want
Producer: Theatre21/ Centre for Inclusive Arts Warsaw, Poland The performance Do What You Want is Filip Pawlak’s attempt, based on his own history, to find an explanation of what alternative motorics is – a concept popularised by the choreographer Rafał Urbacki and still in circulation today. In his search, the artist delves into the archives…
