CRUMBS – Monika Wachowicz // Performing Poland
Performance/installation by Monika Wachowicz
Performance with a movement and text score, universally understandable.
Schedule
Crumbs was born after Monika Wachowicz met female inmates of a detention centre in Katowice, where the artist performed her first original solo piece, V. This experience remained so vivid in Wachowicz’s mind that she decided to ‘run it through herself’ again: this time in silence and equipped with the emotions she experienced during the street protests of the Polish Women’s Strike in October.
Credits
**Conception, performance and installation: **Monika Wachowicz
**Collaboration: **Jarosław Fret
**Music: **Fryderyk Chopin, „Ballada g-moll op. 23”, piece of Murcof group song arranged by Mirosław Matyasik and white noise from inside the uterus.
**Text montage: **Marcin „Cozer” Markiewicz
Running time: ca. 45 min
Monika Wachowicz is an actress, theatre instructor, educator and theatre event organizer. She has worked for the Cogitatur Theatre, Katowice, and the Cantabile 2 Theatre, Denmark. Monika Wachowicz is involved in all productions and artistic projects of the A Part Theatre (except for the one-person plays Lullaby, Bonds and The Rite of Spring). She coordinates the A Part Festival of Performing Arts, heads the A Part Theatre’s Actor’s Studio, curates the Interstices. Women in Performing Arts series at the Grotowski Institute, and runs the Body and Emotion Studio. In 2019 she was appointed President of the Marta Paradecka ART FOR LIFE Foundation. As a teacher of the State Academy of Theater Arts at a branch in Wrocław, she conducts acting classes for 2nd and 3nd year students.
Artus
Artus is an open, diverse intellectual and creative workshop, a meeting place for people, ideas and art.
Artus is both Gábor Goda's company, the Artus Studio - a studio in an abandoned factory building of 2000 square metres - and the collective of 30 artists who work there, as well as the Association, which provides the institutional backdrop.
Founded in 1985, Artus is an independent, contemporary, all-arts collective. We have created more than 100 performances and presented them in 25 countries. Since the beginning we have organised international projects, residencies and co-productions.
The Studio's regular programmes include performances by the Artus company, guest performances, visual arts exhibitions, music and other cultural events, as well as self-awareness and movement workshops.