Monday, September 6 | 18:00 | Warszawa Room
Why doesn’t the body lie? A meeting with a painter, photographer, installation artist and a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Bogna Burska as well as a dancer, performer and choreographer Anna Steller after the screening of the film BODY OF TRUTH, dir. Evelyn Schels
In Polish
Partner: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Before the protagonists became famous artists, Marina Abramović, Shirin Neshat, Sigalit Landau and Katharina Sieverding had experienced war, violence and oppression. Did these experiences make them treat their bodies as the best media of artistic expression? We will talk to our guests about how artists use their own bodies in art. Is being a performer hard everyday work or just an occasional completion of an artistic vision? How and where would we look for new means of expression which could reflect the complicated character of our times?
Guests:
Katarzyna Pastuszak - dancer, director, choreographer, artistic director of the Amareya Theater. Theaterologist and cultural animator, researcher of butoh dance for many years.
Anna Steller – a dancer, performer and choreographer. For years, she has been preparing dance shows, performative campaigns and site specific performances. She collaborates with many choreographers, directors or visual artists. She has danced at the Gdańsk Dada von Bzdulow Dance Theatre. She has been presenting her work at prestigious Polish and foreign festivals.
Host:
Małgorzata Muraszko – journalist and editor for “Gazeta Wyborcza”. She specializes in culture. Music, literature, film and visual arts are particularly close to her heart.
