Performance

Daniel Kotowski is a Warsaw-based artist working on issues of inclusion in language. Born deaf and not using spoken language, through his work he explores the power dynamics in biological, social and linguistic communication in the context of biopolitics. Kotowski addresses the themes of normalization, conditioning, and the concept of free speech from the perspective of people whose senses function differently.  At Picke Bar Kotowski will present a new commissioned performance  “Delighting”, dedicated to examining the nature of feeling of horror or traumatic experience, which often when communicated through purely body movement, can be perceived as the expression of delight. Often those who do not know sign language see it as an expression of corporeality or a performativity. The performance examines the space of multiple interpretations and translations between the visual language of the body and the words and meanings.