Ania Nowak: Inflammations – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Ania Nowak:
Inflammations
Inflammations
A piece about the solidarizing power of vulnerability
Inflammations deals with chronic pain and fatigue, as well as, relief and sensuality that comes with easing the symptoms. Starting from the question of what expectations we have of hyperfunctional bodies on stage, three performers demand a place for unstable bodies - with all their risks and potentials, in dance as well as in society. Vulnerability becomes a catalyst for a new body, language and care economy.
ChoreogaPHY Ania Nowak Performance Ania Nowak, Angela Alves, Laura Lulika DramaturgY Mateusz Szymanówka SCenograPHY Christopher Füllemann Research/ADVICE Luke Pell LiGHT Aleksandr Prowaliński Sound Justyna Stasiowska COSTUMES Maldoror/Wsiura ProduCtion Micaela Kühn Jara
A production of Ania Nowak in collaboration with TATWERK | Performative Research. Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
Ania Nowak approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can and cannot do. Nowak develops formats such as live and video performance, installation and text. In her practice Nowak engages with bodies in their nonlinear feeling and thinking capacity to tackle the intricacies of companionship and care in times of perpetual crisis.
Her work attempts to reimagine the notions of disorder, pleasure, disease, intimacy, pain, sexuality, class and accessibility as sites of binary free living. Nowak’s works have been presented at Sophiensæle, Berlinische Galerie, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Akademie der Künste, KW Pogo Bar, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Salzburger Kunstverein; 14th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius and 12th Gothenburg Biennial for Contemporary Art, amongst others. Nowak recently held solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw an Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin.