Writing in times of crisis vol.3 — Collective writing with Karolina Breguła and Dorota Ogrodzka

On 19 and 20 September, from 13:30 to 19:00, we invite you to a two-day workshop accompanying the finishing of the exhibition Touches her forehead, feels how she smokes, probably has Karolina Breguła's fever.

How do you talk about a world that is becoming increasingly difficult to describe? How to talk about heat, tension, change and everyday life so as not to close the experience in ready-made words? And what can happen when the text ceases to belong to one person.

The workshops will be conducted by Karolina Breguła, visual artist, director and filmmaker, working with narrative, memory, social experience and the relationship between reality and fiction, and Dorota Ogrodzka, curator, director, theater pedagogue and playwright, who has been involved in collective creative processes, performative writing for years, reading and working with the group.

We will write, read, listen and build a text together with many voices. We will be interested in what arises between the document and the imagination, the individual experience and the common narrative, the written word and the spoken word.

In two days we will create a common text, and then we will look for voice, rhythm and performative form for it. The process will end with a joint recording. It is not necessary to have experience in writing or performance, although it will also be appreciated. Curiosity, attentiveness and willingness to work with others are needed.

Karolina Bregula

visual artist, author of installations and social projects. In her practice, she tells stories about buildings, urban spaces and the communities that use them, which become the subject of her anthropological and sociological observations. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Taipei, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in Japan, the Jewish Museum in New York and the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, as well as at international art festivals such as the Venice Biennale and the Singapore Biennale. She is the winner of many awards, including the Sights Award, the EMAF Festival Award and the Golden Claw Award at the Gdynia Film Festival. He lives in Szczecin, where he teaches at the Academy of Arts. For ten years, he has been doing his artistic work mainly in Tainan, Taiwan. Cooperates with the gallery lokal_30.

Dorota Ogrodzka

theater teacher, director, researcher. Social artist and coach. Curator of artistic and social projects. He has been co-director of the Association of Theatre Pedagogues for 15 years. He teaches at the Theater Academy, PJATK and at Uw. Founder and director of the Theatrical and Social Laboratory. For four years she worked at the Polish Theater in Bydgoszcz, where she founded and led the Young Stage, directed performances and performative actions, and was the curator of the educational and artistic program. For 15 years he has been co-organizing the Slot Art festival. He writes and publishes, directs the program of educational and socio-artistic activities at CSW Zamek Ujazdowski.