Alicja Rogalska
area: Video, Performance, Social Practice
Key Facts
nationality
Polandarea
Video, Performance, Social Practiceresidence
London (GBR)recommending institution
frei_raum Q21 exhibition spacetime period
July 2018 - July 2018
Alicja Rogalska (PL/UK) is an artist living in London and working internationally. Her practice is research-led, interdisciplinary, collaborative and focuses on social structures and the political subtext of the everyday. She mostly works in specific contexts creating situations, performances, videos and installations. Her projects attempt to practise a different political reality here and now, create space for many voices to be heard and to co-exist, whilst collectively searching for emancipatory ideas for the future.
Alicja graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2011) and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw (2006).
She was artist in residence at IASPIS in Stockholm (2017), KulturKontakt in Vienna (2017), MeetFactory in Prague (2016), National University of Colombia in Bogota (2014), Tate Britain (2011-12), attended the Home Workspace programme in Beirut (2013-14) and was an Artsadmin Bursary recipient in London (2016-17).
Exhibitions and screenings include:
Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France (2018), New Poetics of Labour, Teatro Lido, Medellín, Colombia (2018), For Beyond That Horizon Lies Another Horizon, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (Oldenburg, 2017-18), Gotong Royong. Things We Do Together, CCA U-jazdowski (Warsaw, 2017), Free Play, Västerås Konstmuseum (Västerås, 2017), Dreams and Dramas. Law as Literature, NGBK (Berlin, 2017), Social Design for Social Living, National Gallery (Jakarta, 2016), Blue Box, Izolyatsia, Kyiv (2016), All Men Become Sisters, Muzeum Sztuki (Łódź, 2016); Myth, Artisterium, Europe House (Tbilisi, 2015); Rehearsal, National Museum (Kraków, 2015); No Need For References, Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna, 2015); Critical Juncture, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Kochi, 2014); A Museum of Immortality, Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2014), Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Flat Time House (London, 2013); General Strike, Mews Project Space / Art Review (London, 2013); Melancholy In Progress, Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei, 2012); Jour de Fête, The Private Space Gallery / LOOP Festival (Barcelona, 2011); To Look is to Labour, Laden Für Nichts (Leipzig, 2010) and No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern (London, 2010).
During my stay at MQ I will work on a lecture performance Belly of the Beast*.
Where does fascism start? How does it form in one's head and in a society? What psychological biases, emotional and cognitive mechanisms as well as social, legal and ideological formations could be responsible for it? Belly of the Beast is a lecture performance mixing political philosophy, neuroscience, media reports, court cases of Polish neo-fascists in the UK, the twisted logic of internet trolls, and personal stories. Part archeological demonstration, part public dissection, part cooking class, part youtube how-to - the performance will centre around a succession of props, which will be handled, deconstructed and exposed.
*Stuart Hall who was a leading British cultural theorist with Caribbean background described his experience of living in the UK as living in The Belly of the Beast (i.e. the empire).