Polonaise Macabre
live musical setting
performance by Agnieszka Szczotka
about the performance:
POLONAISE MACABRE is a performance at the intersection of poetry and prose, in which the body reveals itself as a porous entity—leaking, decaying, and subject to self-consumption. The body's work, activating the voice, breathing, and speech apparatus, becomes a field of tension between discipline and coercion. This tension intertwines various layers of inheritance: biological, cultural, and affective. Taking the form of a grotesque ritual, Agnieszka Szczotka's performance suggests that decay is not an end, but a particular form of intimacy, in which transcendence remains inextricably linked to bodily contamination.
sen nocy letniej ZOMBIE
the track used - iskra from my album astrid
directed by Marek Zieliński
musical arrangement and sound design: Anastazja Krewniak
about the spectacle:
We are in the countryside, just outside a small town in Podlasie, near the border with Belarus. Perhaps someone here is living contrary to their desires? Or perhaps there are many such people? "A Midsummer Night's Dream ZOMBIE" is a remix of transformations and perversely broken tropes, juxtaposed with the linearity of a life lived according to the "norm." Playing with time and its linearity, but also with dispersion, fragmentation, and compression, is connected to the queer, camp nature of the performance. Who is visible and who is not? Who is hiding something, perhaps even from themselves? Who is copying whom, who is teaching whom, who is accepting? These themes are opened up by, among other things, copying other people's movements as an actor's working method, as well as the clash of the topic of transgenderism with the figure of zombies – most often depicted as a homogeneous, non-individual mass of Others threatening "us." Similar language is often used to promote hatred (but also to incite and express fear) towards minorities – particularly queer and refugee people. Simultaneously, these patterns are multiplying and are not limited to heteronormative ones… Because perhaps we're all playing roles? Perhaps we're all trying to be deceptively similar?
Performative Reading of Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
live musical setting with ehh hahah
directed by Szymon Adamczak
about the spectacle:
Autobiography of Red is the story of a mythological red monster told from a completely different perspective than that recorded in the canon. Anne Carson, one of the most recognizable contemporary poets, enjoys enormous readership and is a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Translating her texts into the performative sphere will enrich the reception of her work and diversify the classical poetry readings that fill the annual Poetry Night program. The book received the Wisława Szymborska Award in the category of best translation of a volume of poetry from a foreign language into Polish in 2024.
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j.inhale, 2026