Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK): The tremble

SAT 18.9.2021 / 13.00 – 16.00

@ KUOPIO CITY HALL
address: Tulliportinkatu 31
Accessible

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The work is part of Shortlist LIVE! Programme, and the artist is nominated for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art award.

Note, that the venue has a limited capacity and participants will be admitted on a first-come-first-serve basis. Ensure your seat to the beginning of the performance by making a reservation! After the seats are sold out, don’t fret, as participants will be admitted to the performance once vacancy becomes available during the above mentioned three (3) hour performance period – we look forward to seeing you there!

The tremble is the first episode of the work The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together which unfolds over four episodes. The work enacts a choreographic mediation on the relationships between touch, intimacy, loss and collectivity.Each episode has its specific embodied vocabulary through which the performers navigate intimate and fragmentary exchanges reflecting on the edges of subjectivity, corporeality and relationality.

In this choreography Baczynski-Jenkins develops vocabularies that range from micro-gestures to poems, social dances and their abstractions. An important part of his work is the use of performance as an agent for what he describes as other-worlding. Expressions of care and empathy lose their usual conventions and representations and are found through micro-gestures, figures of entanglement and dances. Instead of a plot, there is a plotting of an affective field embodied by queer affections that circulate between the performers.

DURATION 3h

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Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK): The tremble

CREDITS

The tremble is part of The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together (2017).

Produced and commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London

Lead Supporter Gaia Art Foundation

With additional support from Arts Council England Grants for the Arts and the Delfina Foundation

This iteration of The tremble is performed by Jia-Yu Corti, Thelma Sharma & Tiran Willemse

Production and tour manager: Andrea Rodrigo  

Sound design in collaboration with Jayson Patterson

Sound mixed live by Zoi Michailova

Poem “The Seagulls” by Ezra Green

The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together was developed in collaboration with and performed by Magdalena Chowaniec, Jia-Yu Corti, Kobe Darko, Jonathan Gonzalez, Samuel Kennedy, Matthew Morris, Jayson Patterson, Owen Ridley-DeMonick & Thelma Sharma

Production support during the development of the project: Jayson Patterson

With thanks to Krzysztof Bagiński, Ellen Grieg, Eliel Jones, Enad Marouf, Polly Staple, Aaron Cezar

Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK): The tremble

Artist and choreographer Alex Baczynski-Jenkins engages with queer affect, embodiment and relationality.
Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his 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 interdependent 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 archives. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while producing other ways of experiencing memory, time and change. He is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure.

Alex Baczynski-Jenkins. Photo: Leszek Zych
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins. Photo: Leszek Zych

Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK): The tremble

How to get there?

There is an accessible entrance and accessible WC at the venue.