Performative activities/We care about sculpture

1:00 p.m.

performative guided tour in the Sculpture Park in Królikarnia

The performance tour in the Sculpture Park is a proposal for people who want to go beyond the traditional sightseeing, look at art and space differently and check how the body can become a tool for learning about art. During the walk we will stop at selected sculptures, treating them as starting points for performative activities and reflections. Through simple movement tasks, working with the body, sound and imagination, we will explore the relationships between form and movement, matter and gesture, object and presence.

The walk will be led by educators, performers and improvisational musicians, who will offer a variety of forms of work: from mindfulness exercises, through movement activities, to short sound interventions. Participants are invited to participate actively on their own terms — no previous experience is required.

Date: Saturday, August 8, 1 p.m.

Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Meeting point: collection in front of the Palace in Królikarnia, ul. Puławska 113a, Warsaw — at the entrance to the Królikarnia

For whom: adults and adolescents 16+
Rules of participation: tickets at the price: 40 and 25 zł (reduced)/available at the box office and [online] (http://bilety.mnw.art.pl/termin.html?idl=3&idg=16&idw=1008) two weeks before the event/number of places limited/in case of difficult weather conditions the event will take place inside the palace in Królikarnia/workshop ticket and also authorizes entry to the exhibition “[Sculpture on a furniture wall] (https://krolikarnia.mnw.art.pl/wystawy/rzezba-na-mebloscianke,203.html)”

What to take: comfortable clothes, good mood and openness to movement

Leading persons:

Julia Ruszkowska (conducting), Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska (performance), Marcin Bożek (guitar)

Julia Ruszkowska — educator, art historian, associated with the National Museum in Warsaw. A graduate of the Master's degree in Alternative Education with Art Education at the University of Warsaw. She runs museum lessons, guided tours and art workshops for audiences of all ages.

Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska — dancer, choreographer, performer, improviser, business coach, translator and philologist. Since 2023 she has been curator, together with Ilona Trybula, of the Improvised Dance Scenes [Sic!] Saute at the Łowicka Center in Warsaw. In his practice, he combines movement, sound and word. She works solo, in collectives and creates choreographies for other dance and theater ensembles. She is the creator of more than a dozen original choreographies, her works have been presented in Berlin, Budapest, Philadelphia, Melbourne, New York, Warsaw and Vienna, among others. Scholarship holder of MKiDN 2024, Alternative Dance Academy 2015-2017 implemented by ASF by Grażyna Kulczyk and beneficiary of the Global Practice Sharing program at Movement Research in New York. A graduate of the Experimental Choreography II course organized by the Warsaw Centre in Movement.

Marcin Bożek — musician, improviser, teacher. A graduate of the Faculty of Jazz and Entertainment Music of the Academy of Music in Katowice, he holds a master's degree in the field of bass guitar playing. Winner of many awards in international competitions and festivals. Full-time bassist of the Music Theatre in Gdynia from 2005 to 2015. Since 2007 he has been co-creating the Polish improv music scene. He improvises with musicians, actors, painters, artists, dancers and solos. Artistic and educational concert projects: Giant and Kurdupel, Bass Solo, Double Trouble, Gdynia Improvisers Orchestra. He collaborates with Tomek Gadecki, Kraków Improvisers Orchestra, Rafał Mazur, Mikołaj Trzaska, Ken Vandermark, Danny Kamis and Marie Takahashi.

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Program coordination: Aleksandra-Bożek Muszyńska,,