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Commissioned by FestivAlt in Krakow, “My Imaginary Friends” is a site-specific augmented aural experience. It is a kind of sound-walk where I tell you about the people who are not there because their grandparents perished in World War II.
For more, check here.
Due: July 2020
With Nathan Koch, Wiktor Podgorski and Sara Batkie, Ewa Pawlik.
Thank you, Asylum Arts
TUSIA DABROWSKA works at the intersection of storytelling, performance and media. Recent work has been seen at, among others, EdgeCut (2020), Soft Surplus (2019), Circle1 (Berlin, 2019), mhProject (2019), BRIC (2018); with Maria Hupfield— The Gibney Dance Theater (2017), Museum of Art and Design (2017); Frequency Fridays at the Fuse Factory (Columbus, OH, 2017), Open Source Gallery (2017), The PrintScreen Festival (Tel Aviv, 2016), The Great Wall of Oakland (Oakland, CA, 2016), and TAFNY (2015). Her writing/translation has appeared in the Nth Position (poetry), the Forward (translation), Aish (personal essay), Vida, and The Vassar Review (translation). Tusia’s translation of Piotr Pazinski’s prize-winning memoir, The Boarding House, was published in late 2018 by the Dalkey Archive Press. Her work has been supported by the Puffin Foundation (2014) and Asylum Arts (2018). Tusia was the artist in residence at Signal Culture (2017), BRICWorkspace (2017-2018), mhProject Space (2019), and KonventZero (2019). She holds degrees from the New School, Trinity College Dublin, and NYU. Tusia shares her time between Warsaw and Brooklyn.
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I tell stories that interrogate processes of transformation engaging with technology and creating site-responsive immersions. My work is devised, collaborative, hybrid. I construct dream-like experiences.
I conceive sound-text in terms of interactivity, spatial experience, and voice modulation. I am drawn to AR, but I predominately work in performance. Recent works question self-fulfillment (Inside/immersive performance), show parallel socio-economic realities (SpaDisco/immersive performance), tell a story of a relationship between a sentient neural network and a woman (New Women/immersive performance), and imagine what present day Poland would look like if it had a large Jewish population (My Imaginary Friends/ AR app). The work is based on prompts created in collaboration with a writer, experimenting with narrative form and spatial narration.
My aesthetic mixes pop culture and experimental media aesthetics drawing inspiration from the New York feminist video art scene that emerged in the late 70s and early 80s, and the Polish Jewish women avant grade artists whose assemblages came into prominence in the 80s and 90s Poland. I embrace failure.
In every space I select for myself in work and life, I am reminded how resistance is not linear. I also consider what it means to challenge oneself under capitalism and embrace the exuberance of process.
Sometimes you end up with an egg on your face. (Circa 2015.)
The New Women's Space Program, part 1. Project presentation at the conclusion of the KonventZero Residency in Berga, Spain.
Rehearsing at KonventZero.
A woman astronaut is sent on a solo mission to Mars. Haunted by visions of cross-generational trauma, she feels the need to crash her spacecraft. Will she reach her destination?
Visit website: THE NEW WOMEN’S SPACE PROGRAM: SALLY RIDE.
THE NEW WOMEN’S SPACE PROGRAM: SALLY RIDE is a devised immersive experience/performance by Tusia Dabrowska and Wiktor Podgorski with Sara Batkie (provocations), Maria Hupfield (object activations on video), and guest artists including Brookhart Janquil (light sculptures at Soft Surplus) and Jonathan Taylor (movement design). Additional vocals by Clara Ines Schuhmacher.
Above: Cover photo from our performance at Alchemical Studios in New York (Jan. 30, 2020). Documentation from our Open Studio presentation at the conclusion of our residency at Konvent Zero in Spain (Aug 3, 2019). Documentation from our performance at Circle1 in Berlin is available here (image 6).
(A supposedly fun thing we’ll never do again)
SpaDisco We put the guilt in guilty pleasure
How many Polish women does it take to clean all the toilets in all the households in Manhattan? And how many Nigerian women does it take to care for an old white woman, making sure she’s fed and clean, only to be accused of stealing?
SpaDisco is a collaborative performance and sound experience about “a paradox of pampering” (as described by David Foster Wallace), or the care provided by the immigrant labor force, specifically immigrant women.
Conceived by Tusia Dabrowska, a collaborative artist working in live art, video and sound, this project was developed by Tusia and two electronic music producers and singers, She’s Excited and Electric Djinn. Guest appearance by JS Cawley, a writer and educator, who will perform her work live for the first time.
Performance at 195 Chrystie St / Gallery Sensei pop-up, 4.30 Open Rehearsal at the Eugene, 3.10
Immigrant robot. #SpaDisco 💥 💥 💥 with She's Excited and Electric Djinn.
SpaDisco
Tusia Dabrowska
Neptune Sweet aka Electric Djinn
Anne Wichmann aka She’s Excited!
Guest Appearance (Open Rehearsal): MOTHER AFRICA: JS Cawley (poet)