KCC Research Residency – Magdalena Górnikiewicz
We invite you to meet our next resident of this year, Magdalena Górnikiewicz.
For the past few days, we have been hosting Magdalena Górnikiewicz in our space, where, during her stay in Kraków, she is developing her original performative method — Invisible Chaos Practice — combining phenomenological approaches with kinesthetics, automatic drawing, and movement in its broadest sense.
Once again, we are delighted to dedicate our space to activities focused on process, research, and exploration.
The meeting will take the form of an interdisciplinary installation. It will include a short performative movement presentation as well as an exhibition of sketches and drawings created during the residency.
12 February
7:00 PM
KCC Studio
Admission: 10 PLN
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The meeting will be held in Polish. Audio description and Polish Sign Language (PJM) interpretation will not be provided. The studio is accessible for wheelchair users; however, there is no elevator in the NCK building. A ramp is available at the side entrance, and level -1 can be accessed from the Gruba Buła restaurant side.
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INVISIBLE CHAOS PRACTICE — a phenomenological journey from body and space to paper and back
The focus of this research residency is the creation of a laboratory space dedicated to exploring the role of the body, as well as the analysis of imagination and perception in the context of contemporary dance and improvisation.
By recording thoughts and sensory experiences in the form of sketches on paper, what is invisible becomes tangible and is then embodied again. These records serve both as documentation and as a starting point for further exploration toward objective and subjective minimalism. As a point of departure, I have focused on observing emotionality and attentiveness within body and space, drawing inspiration from the practice of Deborah Hay and the writings of Susan Leigh Foster, Kathleen Lennon, Miranda Tufnell, Chris Crickmay, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
The foundation of my research is a “here and now” approach, focusing on exploration and working with what is already present in the body, moving away from the pressure to find, produce, or categorize outcomes. I understand each action as a continuous and unrepeatable act of experience, abandoning the pursuit of closed, unambiguous results.
Magdalena Górnikiewicz is a dancer and choreographer based in Brussels and Kraków, working across dance theatre, improvisation, and visual arts. She currently works internationally as a freelance artist and is a member of the WEi collective in Brussels.
She graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds (UK), receiving a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance as well as an MA in Interdisciplinary Dance Performance. She further developed her artistic education at the Faculty of Performing Arts at the University of Stavanger (Norway) and at the Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in Munich (Germany).
She has collaborated with artists and companies including Áine Stapleton, John-William Watson, Gecko Theatre, Fernanda Prata, Dan Canham, Phil Sanger, Rhiannon Faith, Gian Singh Sanghera-Warren, Imogen Reeve, and Joseph Mercier, performing internationally across Europe. Prior to emigrating in 2019, she was associated with Teatr Ludowy, Teatr Hothaus, the L’Art de la Danse Private Dance School, and the Dance Innovation programme at XXX High School.
Magdalena is currently developing her original performative method, Invisible Chaos Practice, combining phenomenological approaches with kinesthetics, automatic drawing, and movement in its broadest sense.
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Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund — a state special-purpose fund — as part of the “Dance” programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.
Photo: Tim Dunk
