Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK): Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless

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
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.

Credits
Choreography: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins
Curatorial advisor and tour manager: Andrea Rodrigo
Executive Producer: Holly Shuttleworth
Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless co-producers and presenters:
De Singel, Antwerp
Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center, Lausanne
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
ANTI FESTIVAL, Kuopio
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Kunstverein Düsseldorf and Aachen
Kunstverein Cologne
Klosterruine, Berlin
Disappearing Berlin – Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

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.

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.