Artist in Residence Ewa Bańkowska
14.02-06.03
Nadalokal will welcome Ewa Bańkowska as resident, developing her performance Kurz und Knapp which will premiere on 28.04.2022 in WUK. She will work on the following questions:
How to report living? How to announce a personal sensations? How to emote a fact? How to make self-sentiment appealing and self-pity attractive?
In “kurz und knapp” Ewa Bańkowska uses the format of a newscast show to stage a personal, poetic report. Starting with a dry delivery of general facts and observations of reality, she arrives at frictional dead-end streets and finds herself stranded on the comforting island of escapism, eventually laying open an emotional struggle to accept some of life’s inevitable events, like e.g. death. While trying to keep professional, she reports in a
straightforward manner personal observations, which results in an interesting tension between the form and the content.To her own astonishment, she delivers a delightfully preposterous news-performance.
Premiere: 28.04.2022 , WUK performing arts, Vienna, www.wuk.at
Ewa Bańkowska
Born in Łòdź, Poland. Freelance performer, creator and a choreographer. She studied international relations (University of Łódź, Poland, Faculty of American Studies and Mass Media) and contemporary dance and choreography (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance). Lives in Vienna. The artistic work of Ewa Bańkowska can be placed between the practices of performance and theater, but it always remains rooted within a choreographic perspective. In her projects she deals with everyday issues and down-to-earth agenda. Her recent projects are: “The Pitching Project” (2021), “Piccole Conversazioni” (2018) and “Exposé Fantastique” (2016). Among others she has worked with the following artists: Begüm Erciyas, Amanda Piña, Andrea Maurer, Clélia Colonna, Georg Blaschke and Paul Wenninger. She is currently working on a performative score with the title “Conversazioni Interiori”.
Laia Fabre
is originally from Barcelona and has lived in Vienna for many years. She is an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from BAU Art & Design University in Barcelona and studied visual arts under Dorit Margreiter at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been invited and exhibited internationally. It mainly consists of performances, painting and video installations. Laia’s work reflects on time issues related to her experiences in everyday life and probes the limits between art and her generation’s life. In 2007 she and Thomas Kasebacher established the performance duo notfoundyet, which focuses on subjects around contemporary life and the notion of community. They are convinced that collaboration is a way to learn, but also a way to show that different groups in society can work together. Their most recent works are:“The Bolaño Project“, „Houseparty“ and „RAW“ (Wiener Festwochen 2022).
Participants:
Development, Performance, Management: Ewa Bańkowska
Outside eye, Management: Laia Fabre
Lighting Design: Patricia Schönangerer
Foto: Franzi Kreis
Coproduction: WUK performing arts
Production: Fauxpas Club – Performance, Theater, Tanz
With support from nadaLokal (Residency) and Raw Matters (Tender Steps Residency).
With financial support from the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna.