Performance: (M)OTHERS at OKO

To celebrate Mother’s Day, we invite you to the performance “(M)OTHERS”, which explores an expanded concept of motherhood – one that includes not only biological but also social and territorial relationships. It is an attempt to delve into the universal role of “MOTHER” – something each of us carries within, regardless of gender, age, sexual identity, skin color, ability, or education level: silence, city, game, community, senses, chameleon, dragon, queer, stranger, other. The concept of the performance creates space for reflection on empathy, social expectations, and love despite differences. The piece is a collage of images, memories, choreography, words, musical postcards, and dreams.

The production was co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund, as part of the “Dance” program run by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

May 24, 2025 (Saturday) / 7:00 PM / Free admission
SALA WIDOWISKOWA OKO, ul. Radomska 13/21, Warsaw,

Producer: NEW WAVE Foundation
Co-financed by: The City of Warsaw under the “Warsaw Culture – works, projects, events” program
Project: “Calendar of the NEW WAVE Foundation and HOTELOKO Collective 2025”

Evening Program – May 24:

  • Performance: “(M)OTHERS” – HOTELOKO Company, dir. & chor. Agata Życzkowska
  • Film: “becoming taiga” – Agnieszka Gąsiorek
  • After talk

I. „(M)OTHERS” / HOTELOKO Company


Director, dramaturgy, choreography: Agata Życzkowska
Co-choreography: Mirek Woźniak, Karina Szutko, Maciej Feliga
Set, costume & sound design: Agata Życzkowska
Video projections: Agata Życzkowska, Karina Szutko
Performers: Agata Życzkowska, Mirek Woźniak, Karina Szutko, Maciej Feliga
Production: NEW WAVE Foundation
Partners: Praga-Południe Cultural Promotion Center, OKO Cultural Center, Z. Raszewski Theatre Institute
Premiere: September 27, 2024

Premiera: 27/09/202

Trailer:

MOTHERS_HOTELOKO_fot. Alicja Szulc
Play

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II. „Becoming Taiga” / Agnieszka Gąsiorek – 6’36’’ – film

Concept & cinematography: Agnieszka Gąsiorek
Partner: New Visions

“Becoming Taiga” is a poetic documentary capturing the gathering of members from a transformative learning/unlearning community space called TAIGA and FJORDS, created by new visions (Berlin). The program was designed as a safer and braver space for people with life experience as women, who combine artistic and activist work – mostly in Eastern Europe or as migrants across Europe. It is warmth and sensation, community and care, slowness and love, earthiness and radicality. The first meeting took place in August 2022 at Massia*ru in Estonia. The film blends documentary images with the participants’ poetry, singing, needs, images of nature, movement, intimacy, and strength that emerged during those days in the Estonian forest.

Agnieszka Gąsiorek is a filmmaker, anthropologist, and activist. She graduated from a film school in Denmark (2017) and earned her degree in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology in Wrocław (2023). She is engaged in numerous social and activist initiatives. In her spare time, she explores dance, movement, and gardening. In film, she is especially interested in movement – not only as a visual element but as a medium for expressing what cannot be said in words. She has made several short films screened at festivals worldwide. Her film “Grandma Dorota” won five awards across various categories, and she received a Best Director award for her short fiction “Thoughts of Love.” She is currently developing various short film formats and writing her first feature-length script.