WHERE Kuopio City HallTulliportinkatu 31 70110 Kuopio
DURATION The performance is open to the audience for 2 hours.
PARTICIPATION The audience can come and go to the performance space as they wish.
CREDITS Choreography: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
In collaboration with and performed in various constellations by: Agata Grabowska, Arad Inbar, Beverly D. Renekouzou, and Thomias Radin.
The iteration at ANTI festival is performed by Agata Grabowska and Beverly D. Renekouzou
Sound design & artistic advisor: Krzysztof Bagiński Sound contributions: Zoi Michailova Lighting design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski Dramaturgy: Andrea Rodrigo Poem: Ezra Green
With thanks to Dareen Abbas, Thibault Lac
Studio: Studio Manager: Sarie Nijboer Curator & Tour Manager: Andrea Rodrigo Executive Producer: Holly Shuttleworth
With thanks to our co-producers and presenters: De Singel, Antwerp, Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center, Lausanne, KIASMA, Helsinki, ANTI FESTIVAL, Koupio, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Kunstverein Düsseldorf and Aachen, Kunstverein Cologne, Klosterruine, Berlin and Disappearing Berlin – Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin.
Developed with the generous support of a residency at Callie’s, Berlin and supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
ALEX BACZYNSKI-JENKINS Artist and choreographer, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins engages with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Previous and solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2018); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). Baczynski-Jenkins has also presented work at: Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv (2021), The 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga (2020), Meetings on Art at the 58th Venice Biennale of Art, Venice (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, Νew York (2016). Baczynski-Jenkins is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice.
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins , the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art winner 2021, will present his new work in Kuopio City Hall. The piece unfolds the politics of desire and traces queer histories.
Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless is a choreography that reflects on the relations of desire, dance, fragmentation, love (as communality), loss and time.
Through gesture, sensuality, touch and relationality, Baczynski-Jenkins’ practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change.
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins is the 2021 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. The prize and the performance at ANTI Festival are funded by the Saastamoinen Foundation . The performance will be presented at Kiasma after ANTI Festival.
WHERE Kuopio City HallTulliportinkatu 31 70110 Kuopio
DURATION The performance is open to the audience for 2 hours.
PARTICIPATION The audience can come and go to the performance space as they wish.
CREDITS Choreography: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
In collaboration with and performed in various constellations by: Agata Grabowska, Arad Inbar, Beverly D. Renekouzou, and Thomias Radin.
The iteration at ANTI festival is performed by Agata Grabowska and Beverly D. Renekouzou
Sound design & artistic advisor: Krzysztof Bagiński Sound contributions: Zoi Michailova Lighting design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski Dramaturgy: Andrea Rodrigo Poem: Ezra Green
With thanks to Dareen Abbas, Thibault Lac
Studio: Studio Manager: Sarie Nijboer Curator & Tour Manager: Andrea Rodrigo Executive Producer: Holly Shuttleworth
With thanks to our co-producers and presenters: De Singel, Antwerp, Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center, Lausanne, KIASMA, Helsinki, ANTI FESTIVAL, Koupio, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Kunstverein Düsseldorf and Aachen, Kunstverein Cologne, Klosterruine, Berlin and Disappearing Berlin – Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin.
Developed with the generous support of a residency at Callie’s, Berlin and supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
ALEX BACZYNSKI-JENKINS Artist and choreographer, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins engages with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Previous and solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2018); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). Baczynski-Jenkins has also presented work at: Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv (2021), The 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga (2020), Meetings on Art at the 58th Venice Biennale of Art, Venice (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, Νew York (2016). Baczynski-Jenkins is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice.
