Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin)

In the organizer's words:

The artist and choreographer Alex Baczyński-Jenkins explores desire and alienation in his performances. With Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin), he presents his latest work developed for the atrium of the Gropius Bau. In his practice, Baczyński-Jenkins uses choreography as a means of reflecting on feelings, perception and collectivity. The focus is on alternative ways of experiencing memory, time and change.

The starting point for Baczyński-Jenkins' new performance is Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel Leb wohl, Berlin, which traces the supposed last days of Berlin's nightlife and cabaret culture during the rise of fascism. Berlin is both a concrete place and a projection screen that embodies narratives of state violence, transformation, life in countercultures and ideas of freedom and finitude. In the choreography, the performers dance towards an end - a "grand finale" that is a long time coming: Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin) moves in the field of tension between loss, anger, seduction, the uncanny and ecstatic devotion.

Through the intimate and fragmentary exchange between the performers, Baczyński-Jenkins' choreographies explore structures and politics of desire. Relationality forms the cornerstone of his work, which is evident in the collaborative development and performance practice, but also in the choreographic material. This includes the investigation of relationships against the background of sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, everyday experiences as well as utopian and hidden queer histories.

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is a co-founder of Kem, a queer-feminist collective from Warsaw that explores social practices through choreography, performance and sound. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem explores critical intimacy and queer desire.

Price information:

9 / reduced € 6