Kem School 2025 + SQUIR
“How to queer the everyday?”
Kem invites to a performative workshop with SQUIR
In what ways can choreographic practices offer an encounter with the world and not merely a discussion about it? The SQUIR collective invites all those interested in performance and bodily practices (irregardless of experience or ability) to a 3-day, queer workshop-laboratory. Throughout this group process we will be examining choreographic strategies and developing practices of movement which shape a reality (made) of our desires. We will experiment with ways of moving beyond anthropocentric understandings of the world while experiencing coexistence, intimacy and collectivity. Our focus will revolve around 3 perspectives: the choreographic, the performative and the socio-political.
Day 1. What happens in time beyond structure?
4.06 12:00 - 16:00
time and space, the body, perception, attention, borders of the self
Day 2. What can I become through this practice?
5.06 12:00 - 16:00
autofiction, hybridity, desire, becoming
Day 3. How do our body landscapes intertwine?
6.06 12:00 - 17:00
(non)human relations, meetings, connections
The 3 workshop days represent an interrelated, coherent cycle, therefore we encourage participation throughout the 3 days. However, each meeting is also its own whole, so participation in single days is also possible.
What you will need:
Clothes you can easily move in
Water
Snacks
Pen and notebook
Please find the link to sign up here: https://forms.gle/Q7SRiEkBcFK9CpZFA
There are limited spaces available for this free workshop (must be 18+), we therefore ask that you let us know if anything changes regarding your availability.
As Kem we continue to strive to make our programme as accessible as possible - if you have any questions about the accessibility of this event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us: school@kemwarsaw.com
This workshop will be led in Polish with translation to English upon request.
SQUIR is an artistic-research collective working at the intersection of choreography, performance, and experimental education. The group operates in a laboratory-like manner, situated in the cracks between expanded notions of choreography and community-building practices, activist-social practices.
SQUIR emerged from the community of the Queer Movement Academy and from a need for collective action, strengthening alliances and embodying queer-feminist theory. She presented the performance “Pokaż jej prześwit” at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and took part in a residency as part of the “Wspólne pole” program at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.
Her interests revolve around environmental (and labor-related) ecologies, sustaining community in times of precarity and crisis, and working with the body through choreographic methodologies and somatics.
The current members are: Alicja Czyczel, Bartosz Jakubowski, Zojka Żu, Jagna Nawrocka, Alek (Aleksandra) Sarna, Magdalena Siemaszko, Ida Ślęzak, and Paulina Woźniczka.
Kem School is co-financed by the City of Warsaw, in the framework of the project “JASNA 10: Społeczna Inicjatywa Kultury”
Graphic design by @marcjanna