PROGRAM:
January 21 (Tuesday)
LET’S DANCE! (Master Performances)
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- 6:00 PM: BBB Johannes Deimling
- 6:30 PM: Damian Drozd
- 7:30 PM: Dominika Wiak
- 8:30 PM: Marta Wołowiec
- 9:30 PM: Alessandra Zerbinati
January 22 (Wednesday)
CALM DOWN!
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- 6:00 PM: Yann Marussich “Agokwa”
- 9:40 PM: Olena Matoshniuk
- JP1 (Jana Shostak and Piotr Adamski)
January 23 (Thursday)
BE RUDE!
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- 6:00 PM: Janusz Bałdyga
- Piotr Urbaniec
- 13 student performers
- 9:30 PM: Geisha Davis with Mikołaj Kownacki from the SYF band
Tickets
Tickets priced at 10 PLN and 50 PLN (for master performances) can be purchased online HERE.
ATTENTION!
The IV Intercollegiate Performance Review aKTOmaR is intended for audiences aged 16 and above.
About the Event
IV Intercollegiate Performance Review aKTOmaR is currently the largest student performance festival in Europe, aimed at students from art universities across Poland. The event will take place from January 21–23, bringing together representatives from 12 universities and many renowned artists from Poland and abroad.
The festival’s goal is to showcase educational achievements in the fields of performance art, action art, audio art, and meta-theatrical practices.
aKTOmaR serves as a space for exchanging experiences, engaging in discussions, and expanding perspectives on performance art. Meetings with established artists, student presentations, and workshops provide an opportunity to develop practical skills and critical thinking about performance art, highlighting its broad social and cultural potential.
This review is not only a showcase of the most current phenomena in performance art but also a platform for dialogue and a stimulus for further development and professionalization of performance art in Poland and Europe.
January 21 (Tuesday)
LET’S DANCE! (Master Performances)
Johannes Deimling (Germany)
BBB Johannes Deimling captivated the audience with his performance from the Mysterious Barricades series—a deeply symbolic, visual masterpiece crafted using simple and accessible means. This performance, inherently painterly, engaged not only the visual sense but also other sensory perceptions. Staying true to his aesthetic, the artist composed the performance with bold color accents and everyday objects repurposed into gestures and movements. A hallmark of Deimling’s work is his departure from linear narrative structures, building the performance as a collage of non-linear elements. This allows logic and rationality to fade as the performance unfolds, drawing the audience into a space of new meanings filled in by their imagination. The result is an enchanting, surreal atmosphere where the audience attentively follows the unexpected transformations on stage.
Alicja Gołyźniak
Damian Drozd (Poland)
A performer and dancer navigating between contemporary dance, performance, and visual arts. His expressive, emotion-driven choreographies explore themes of identity and interpersonal relationships.
Dominika Wiak
As Rebecca Solnit writes in The Mother of All Questions, the history of silence is the key to women’s history. MISSPIECE is a personal journey to finding one’s voice and place in a world defined by societal roles, binary divisions, and masterpieces created by men. It attempts to break open the canon and rediscover the herstory within it. The piece explores the emancipatory potential of house music—a space for manifesting the female voice—and the body as a continually moving, creative, and transformative force.
In MISSPIECE, the body is both a shelter for silenced voices and the source of their release.
Marta Wołowiec
The Tens performance delves into the body as a generator, transmitter, and receiver of energy. The artist explores the organic flow of physical sensations, vibrations, intuitive impulses, and the synchronization of body and mind. She offers both herself and her audience time to align their energies, allowing them to connect deeply with her performance.
Tens embodies tension, mindfulness, and tranquility, as well as strength rediscovered through deep breaths and a firm stance.
Tens (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) refers to a therapeutic method using low-amplitude electrical impulses to stimulate peripheral nerves, blocking pain signals to the brain and promoting the release of beta-endorphins.
Alessandra Zerbinati (Italy)
An audio art artist and performer specializing in noise music and acoustic space experiments. Her performances are intense, immersive experiences combining technological precision with bold improvisation.
January 22 (Wednesday)
CALM DOWN!
Yann Marussich – Agokwa (Switzerland)
A performer and choreographer known for deeply introspective, physically demanding acts. In Agokwa, he explores fluidity of identity through the body, engaging in slow, ritualistic transformations within a minimalist set.
JP1 (Jana Shostak and Piotr Adamski)
An artistic duo merging performance, film, and visual arts. Their works balance aesthetic sensitivity with social engagement, often addressing migration, ecology, and human rights.
STUDENTS RULE!
Daytime student presentations will feature emerging artists in performance art, showcasing the next generation’s creative voices.
January 23 (Thursday)
BE RUDE!
Janusz Bałdyga (Poland)
A renowned Polish visual artist, performer, and member of the Academy of Movement group. His ephemeral actions, blending theater and spatial installations, are pivotal in the development of action art in Poland.
Geisha Davis & SYF (Mikołaj Kownacki)
British performer and vocalist Geisha Davis, known for boundary-pushing explorations of identity and body politics, will perform alongside Mikołaj Kownacki, co-creator of the radical music project SYF. Their collaboration merges noise musical anarchy with vocal terrorism for an explosive artistic statement.
STUDENTS RULE!
The final festival day will feature approximately 15 student artists from various art institutions across Poland presenting their works.
