Kem School 2025 + Liina Magnea, "Their Borders, Our Solidarity" feat. Special Guests + OPEN CALL

OPEN CALL for “Algorithmic Bodies, Disobedient Gestures” — workshop by Liina Magnea

As part of Kem School 2025, artist Liina Magnea will lead a workshop exploring movement as a way of navigating overflow, crisis and play. Departing from the idea of the body as an “algorithm” overwhelmed with stimuli, participants will research how disobedient gestures can emerge when choreography is abandoned in favor of raw, unfiltered expression. We will work with Family Constellation Therapy exercises alongside physical and vocal improvisations to access collective and inherited dynamics, and to trace how memory and emotion move through the body. 

From there, the workshop shifts into collective invention. Drawing on the archetype of the jester, the trickster who mocks authority, destabilizes order and reveals hidden truths through humor, participants will develop alter egos and narratives that feed into their physical improvisations. The group will create a shared fictive stage where storytelling and dance merge into a durational performance experiment.

The workshop is open to anyone curious to work with the body and imagination. While no professional background is required, it is beneficial for participants to have some prior experience with movement improvisation and writing practices. Priority will be given to queer participants. The workshop is free of charge.

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Dates: October 15–16 2025
Times: 11:00–18:00 (with a one-hour lunch break)
Place: Świetlica Krytyki Politycznej, Warsaw
Language: English
How to apply: https://forms.gle/fpCdfZ4eKq4kdjzt9

OPEN PROGRAMME

Ssasin’s Creed (Lady Says Stop) by Liina Magnea

Date: 17.10, 18:00
Place: TBC

Apart from hosting the workshop, Liina will also present her work Ssasin’s Creed (Lady Says Stop) which looks at what happens when someone’s sense of power or place in society is shaken—or entirely removed. Some collapse into victimhood and lose themselves in loops of self-referential thought. Others rise up, claiming a kind of messianic purpose, convinced they must fix or change the world. From these ruptures, new figures emerge: cult leaders, lone actors, people on missions that no one asked for.

Who do we become when we feel humiliated or unseen? What kinds of violence do we justify under the banner of change?

Their Borders, Our Solidarity feat. Special Guests

Date: 16.10, 18:30 - 20:30
Place: Świetlica Krytyki Politycznej, ul. Jasna 10

A meeting with people bringing diverse takes on solidarity and resistance: Nina Kuta, Nataniel Maslianinov, K Właszczyk and a guest, whose palestinian experience marks a particularly important perspective.

This meeting will provide a space in which practices of solidarity that emerge from everyday resistance against settler colonialism become an entry point into collective learning and action. The solidarity we are in need of today is not a one-off gesture or a quick-fix solution. It’s a practice of persistance - sumud - formed in Palestine and other places where resistance flourishes, from Turtle Island to Western Sahara. Our task here, in Europe, is to learn from this persistence and apply it to our everyday actions.

The genocide in Palestine is not occuring in isolation. Its logic permeates the structures in which we live and involuntarily uphold. That is why resistance to this logic must be at the foundation of any future community built on justice.

This meeting will platform people that already face oppression and social violence, and despite that they are often found on the front line of opposition, formulating the most radical and daring postulates. We consider it important to platform their knowledge, practices and experiences so that they can open up the space for collective learning about what solidarity with Palestine can look like and thinking about how it relates to other anticolonial, antiracist and liberational struggles. 

Format 

Each of the invited guests will bring their story - a personal contribution: text, presentation or description of their actions - lasting about 15 minutes. After that we will invite the audience to discuss and think with us about what is solidarity today? How does it intertwine with other fights and stories? What tools and practices of resistance can we incorporate into our everyday lives?