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Wojciech Rybicki

Wojciech Rybicki - he/him


Queer experimental performer

Country: Poland

Discipline: Danse – Performance

Type of public space: Urban – Industrial

PLATFORM 2025 - 2028 Open call #1

Biography

I love experimental performance. I treat art as a medium for redefining memory and designing a future that is sharp in its care and open to what is different. My practice draws from multispecies acceptance, the failures of neoliberal systems, and the power of marginality. Each project becomes a separate ecosystem – alive, full of revolutionary possibilities, extreme contrasts, and the celebration of incompleteness. I move at the intersection of deviation and chimerism, intertwining mythical threads with political urgency. It is a manifesto of the mismatched, who collide with the polished facade of tradition. I invite the acceptance of imperfection, fragmentarity, and collective imagining as a strategy for building community. I believe that the field of choreography goes beyond working with the body. It is a creative and technological method for rethinking the world anew. In my artistic research, I am interested in how space, objects, and various forms of expression can be choreographed. I strive for a total experience.


Artistic project

Marking in dance is a technique in which fragments of choreography are performed incompletely, often to capture an idea, intention, or to reflect/recall the full choreography. Choreopolitics. A temporal (public?)space that restores hope for what is lost, ephemeral, and forgotten. ‚MARKING; RETAKE’ is a queer-postcommunist performance dedicated to the choreographic and political aspects of the marking phenomenon.

Performative exploration in which marking becomes a tool to explore the socio-architectural archives of post-communist, post-industrial spaces. It is disappointed hopes, pseudo-nostalgia, and revision of past - system and promises. Let’s dance for Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit), the state of the forgotten. ‚Our hearts, thoughts, actions for you, socialist motherland.’

This is a loose projection of former Eastern Bloc phantasms, distortion and depravity. Illusory system transformation. Post-communist marking is the way in which people take on new roles and norms after the regime's reorganization. It’s incomplete, fragmentary socio-political changes. Let’s see what we can read from suggestions. I will regret and not meet expectations. It is a dancing propaganda, I’ll mark the choreography. It will forever remain a mystery.


Format : choreographic performance

Size of audience : 50 to 150 people

Specific location :in front of 'Superjednostka' (Polish for Superunit) building

Timing / duration :night performance of one hour