Performance by Natalia Chylińska and Katarzyna Pastuszak
In Anatomies, the artists play with the convention of the anatomy lesson. They question whose eye is looking and what kind of landscape it creates with its gaze. They extend the perception to the sensitive ear, recording the processes of the inner soundscape. They seek a polyphonic anatomy. The artists ask how we can decentralize our position and experience ourselves - humans - as an open process.
Anatomies – two bodies that absorb the earth and introduce the first movement into taboo areas. They want to sow, fertilize, embrace with warmth, protect - let the human and non-human agents pass through them. They listen to the condition of an individual human being - to the small personal cataclysms, and thus find common ground with the natural landscape that has been destroyed by man.
Anatomies
are listening and clinging to explosions that tear apart the stagnant system
are reviving what has frozen on its way to the surface allow dripping through the fissures
touch the sediments crystallized in the body,
the remains of complex processes of accumulation
are an exercise in speculation
are the proximity that cannot fail to be political
are an attempt to embed oneself in a space that has violated the delicate tissue of intimacy
“The experience of touch is difficult to translate into words and awkwardly expressed. Its nature is ad hoc as if it wanted to remain, hence it slips out from under replacement signs and escapes secondary evocations. In any case, the conflict between touch and words is evident” (Jolanta Brach-Czaina, transl. K. Pastuszak, “Membranes of the Mind”, Warsaw 2003, p. 59).
NATALIA CHYLIŃSKA is an artist of Amareya Theater & Guests, vice-president of the Amareya Art Association, a two time scholarship holder of the City of Gdańsk. In artistic activities, he moves between work (with) body / movement, text, sound and visual material. Recent performances and projects: “Anatomie” (2021), “Dom-Bieg-Dom” 『家 - 逃亡 -家』 (2020), “(Po) voices: Bridges between Poland and Japan“ (2019), “As part of the dance: Wrzeszcz “(2021),“ Anatomy of a Process“ as part of the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdańsk“, “Invisible Cities 3.0”, movement workshops for people with Parkinson’s disease, Amareya_LAB workshops. She collaborates with Menoko Mosmos (Ainu Women’s Association in Sapporo) and prof. Hiroshi Maruyama (CEMiPoS), co- creating performances with the participation of Ainu women.
KATARZYNA PASTUSZAK is a dancer/performer, director and director of Amareya Theater & Guests, assistant professor at the Department of Stage Arts Research (Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Gdańsk), and assistant professor at CEMiPoS (Center for Environmental and Minority Policy Studies in Sapporo). Author of the book “Ankoku butō by Hijikaty Tatsumi – the theater of the body- in-crisis“ (Universitas, Krakow 2014). Since 2008, he has been regularly collaborating with Japanese artists, carrying out artistic projects in Poland and Japan. Recent performances: “Anatomie” (2021), “Home-Run-Home” 『 家 - 逃亡 -家』 (2020), “(Po) voices: Bridges between Poland and Japan” (2019), “Cztery” (2018), “Deadman Eating Watermelon” 『 ス イ カ を 食 べ る 死者 』 (2018), “Kantor_Tropy: COLLAGE” (2016), ”Nomadka” (2012). Her performances were presented, among others in Greenland, Japan, Norway, Turkey, Israel, Germany, France, Russia and at many festivals in Poland. Since 2017, she has been cooperating with Menoko Mosmos (Ajnu Women’s Association in Sapporo) and prof. Hiroshi Maruyama (CEMiPoS), co-creating performances with the participation of Ainu women.
