Performance at the Museum

  • Performance at the Museum

    Paulina Ołowska, „Alphabet”, 2014, photo: Bartosz Stawiarski

The performance programme of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is the expanse of interdisciplinary exchange and presentation of the most interesting events from the borderline between visual and performative arts.

It consists of a research programme, “Points of Convergence. Performance and Contemporaneity” – monthly cycle of meetings and workshops focused around the latest discourses on performative arts, as well as of a programme of artistic events which holds a dialogue with the research programme.

In view of the changes that took place in the contemporary culture and the crucial experience of system transformation, the programme “Performance at the Museum” is thought-out, firstly, as a pursuit of grasping the emancipation potential of performance.

The creation of and participation in the performance mean ability to confront the unknown, resignation from ready-made scenarios, stepping outside of the logically weaved, easy to predict linearity. It means boldness to be “here and now”, with its inherent uncertainty and danger. It gives the chance and possibility of “an alternative”. On the other hand, knowing how to speak about performance means ability to grasp the dynamics of the present which – like contemporaneity – is never constant, but always in motion. While the programme of lectures aims at searching for contact points between performance and contemporaneity and for the language used for describing them, the cycle of events organized at the Museum is inclined to test them and complicate even more.

The artistic part of the programme consists of performances and choreographic commissions which serve as an extension of the cycle focused around the Museum’s collection, realized in 2013 in cooperation with Monika Szczukowka. It is also a continuation of the series of choreographic events organized under the common name: “A Stage for Dance”.

Reaching out for various contexts, practices of actions and aesthetics, the programme is inscribed in the wide plain of contemporary art: it induces to think over the issues that are key not only to performance but also to foundations of the identity politics – to the question of subjectivity and corporeality, authorship, participation and political effectiveness.


 

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Archival Events from that cycle:

DzieńGodzinaNazwa wydarzeniaMiejsce wydarzenia
18:00 Lecture Performance and corporealityLecture by André Lepecki
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Small Auditorium
Pańska 3, Warsaw
16:00 Seminar Theories of embodiment in performance studiesSeminar by André Lepecki
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Small Auditorium
Pańska 3, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture Performance and PublicsLecture by Nicholas Ridout
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:00 Seminar Audiences, publics, economiesSeminar by Nicholas Ridout
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture Performance and the SocialLecture by Shannon Jackson
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:00 Seminar Publics, Performance, and Social TheorySeminar by Shannon Jackson
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
16:00 Seminar Neoanimisms and Necropolitics: The Live and the Document in Late Capitalist Time Seminar by Rebecca Schneider
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:00 Seminar The Onto-theology of PerformanceSeminar by Fred Moten
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
15:00 Workshops Spring Rites: Birthing of a New MuseumWorkshop
In cycle „Performance at the Museum”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:00 Seminar Other Emancipatory Histories of PerformanceSeminar by Bojana Kunst
In cycle „Points of convergence”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw