White Aria

Katalin Ladik – performance artist, actor, and creator of visual works—will conduct a performance piece in the MSN Warsaw staircase.

Katalin Ladik has made a name in the history of experimental music in Central Europe through her radical vocal performances: singing concrete poems, generating visceral sounds evoking machines or animals. The artist employs graphic scores using newspaper clippings, tailor’s patterns and maps. Katalin Ladik’s piece for the MSN Warsaw opening refers to the rhythmic sections of the stairway in the new building. She alludes to Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, an oil painting executed by Marcel Duchamp in 1912, which went on to cause sensation and scandal at the Armory Show in New York the next year.