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Meeting with Dominika Wiak
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How does a collective work without a leader — and still develop a distinctive stage language?
- On 25 February, as part of the Na żywo series, we invite you to a conversation with Dominika Wiak — dancer and choreographer, and co-founder of the performative collective Sticky Fingers Club, working at the intersection of dance and theatre.
- The discussion will focus on the collective’s artistic practice and working methods. Founded in 2020 by Daniela Komędera-Miśkiewicz, Dominika Wiak, Monika Witkowska and Dominik Więcek — all graduates of the Dance Theatre Department in Bytom at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków — Sticky Fingers Club operates without a leader, director or legal personality. This is a conscious choice made by the artists, one that directly shapes their collaborative processes and stage strategies.
- The collective’s performances — Sticky Fingers Club, Valeska, Valeska, Valeska, Valeska and Glory Game — explore, among other themes, the condition of the performer/artist and the consequences of success and failure. Their works have been recognised for their original form, humour and self-irony. They were presented at the Polish Dance Platform 2024, and the collective received First Prize at the Kontrapunkt Festival in Szczecin as well as Second Prize in the national Best Off competition for independent theatres. They have also created commissioned performances for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Breakfast on the Grass) and Zachęta National Gallery of Art, on the occasion of the exhibition Anxiety Comes at Dusk.
- Dominika Wiak is also the author of solo works situated between dance and theatre. She collaborates with the Kraków Choreographic Centre and creates choreography for repertory drama theatres, including the Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw. The meeting will offer an opportunity to reflect on collective modes of working, choreographic practice, and the ways in which organisational structures influence artistic language.
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- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- We host both artists who have previously taken part in Ujazdowski Castle’s programme and those making their debut. In this series, we would like to focus on individual approaches and artistic practices.
- Why take part?
- The events will be recorded for archival purposes, and the recordings will be made available online through the Mediateka.
- In times of tensions and crises, thinking and talking together about contemporary art – which responds to today’s challenges in unconventional ways – helps strengthen social resilience. Art is not only the object – just as important are the process, the thinking, the emotions, and the relationships that accompany it. The meetings offer a closer look at how art is created and, most importantly, who creates it.
- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- The meetings are open to everyone, from people working professionally in culture and art, to those who are curious about artists and their work, or simply want to talk about art.
- We do our best to make the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art accessible to everyone – we would like to adapt the event to you and your needs. To help us do that, please contact our accessibility coordinator: dostepnosc@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday before the event.
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