Aphorisms of Entanglement

As part of her 2021 Artistic Residency and in conjunction with the city of Palermo, Kasia Wojcik, together with performance artist and musician Ruth Kemna, created a sound performance consisting of the elements of spoken word and viola. Based on the experiences both artists have during their artistic residency in Palermo, they experiment with the friction and convergence of music and language.

In this philosophical-poetic encounter, based on the research of the Canadian theorist Alexis Shotwell in her essay “Against Purity”, the narrator roams the streets of the Mediterranean city and, at the same time, of her own consciousness. In search of the periphery, in the geographical but also in the psychological sense, the poetic performance explores existence as a fabric of interdependencies and entanglements.

From the collected material Kasia Wojcik, together with documentary filmmaker Jonas Brander, produced a cinematic poetic lecture. Aphorisms of Entanglement is Kasia Wojcik's first poetry film. Here she explores the philosophical approach to being a political and living subject in the compromised reality of late capitalism. By incorporating the local realities of Sicily, she connects these images to the interwoven globality of the neocolonial self. The cinematic performance was shown during das ad hoc's performance as part of Corona Culture at the Alte Münze Berlin in October 2021.

Credits: Kasia Wojcik, Jonas Brander, Ruth Kemna