Freak show
Performance premiere 1st part: 19 October at Jasna 10 Krytyka Polityczna, 2nd part: 31 October 2024 at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
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 for the redress of grievances, but crippling to heal, to subdue and value difference, to share the right to recognise one’s own needs, to reclaim the right to sadness, pride, expression, community, melancholy, fear, anger and pleasure.
What does Freak Show mean for artists with disabilities today? What does it mean for the audience? Can a community of the excluded be built around the tradition of freak shows?
The project involves the creation of a gallery performance and a documentary film depicting the group’s working process.
Creators:
- Curator, directorial support: Łukasz Ronduda, Filip Pawlak
- Creators, performance: Nadia Markiewicz, Babcia, Agata Wąsik, Daniel Kotowski
- Dramaturgy: Szymon Adamczak
- Light Director: Sebastian Klim
Film co-creators
- DOP: Ignacy Ciszewski
- Sound Director: Jan Moszumański
- Production: Madants Film
Project production: Fundacja Inqubator Teatralny, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Project partner: Krytyka Polityczna, Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw
The event is produced in the framework of the 6th edition of the Programme for Strengthening Creative Environments conducted by Krytyka Polityczna as part of the implementation of the public task “Jasna 10: Social Institution of Culture” financed by the City of Warsaw
The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the programme National Centre for Culture: Culture – Interventions. Edition 2024
