Karolina Kubik

(b. 1984, lives in Poznań) is a daughter of Bogumiła, sister of Katarzyna, granddaughter of Irena and Czesława, anti-fascist, visual artist, performer, poet. A graduate of the Faculty of Artistic Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (currently the University of Arts) and the Performance and Performance Studies program at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Pratt Institute in New York; currently a DFA student at her alma mater, where she co-runs the Intermedia class. She is interested in the subjective perception of history and the relationship between politics and the body. Her practices often arise in relation to specific places, taking up unspeakable content and unexpressed, collective emotions associated with them. She tries to combine what is beyond rationality with the dialogical forms of the performance and blur the boundaries between the audience and the performer.

Woodpecker’s Panacea, site-specific project, Zielona Góra 2022

Photo. Karolina Kubik, Acupuncture session: Marian Majchrzycki, MD, osteopath

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The concept of urban acupuncture appears in the context of the regeneration of public space through tactical, local and precise interventions. That is why the punctures in the walls are there to stay.

The old whisperess of Podlasie believed that God paid more attention to her prayers and that it was he who healed the chills, erysipelas, fright, curse, and the plica, called nerve, through her.

How are concrete walls healed? What are they sick with? Does Grandma Irena know? What time is it on the world clock? Who is not with us? Is this the last question or is it only the first? Who has never been and who has disappeared? Who remains invisible? How are alternative behavioural models developed? Who is looking up? Who is looking down? What are temporary voluntary unions and what is the free grouping of individuals? Under what conditions is it possible to organize? How can something that is abstract be politically engaged?

[text: Karolina Kubik]

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