Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin)
danse, performance
- 1h20
- A Little or no text
- B Accessible to persons with reduced mobility
Co-producer: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Tanzquartier Wien, Festival d’Automne à Paris, deSingel, Antwerp, Arsenic, Lausanne, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Teatro Municipal do Porto, MDT Stockholm, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza. Supported by Santarcangelo Festival. Developed with the Gropius Bau studio programme.
In his artistic practice, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins explores affections, queer sensuality, collectivity, suspended time.
The artist and choreographer presents his new work, designed for Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum. Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin) is based on the novel Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Christopher Isherwood, which is set in the final days of Berlin’s nightlife and cabaret culture during the rise of fascism in the 1930s.
The performance navigates the tension between loss, anger, seduction, the strange and ecstatic abandonment.
In the end, the result is almost tactile, raw and minimal.
The artist, co-founder and member of the queer feminist collective Kem, laureate to the prestigious Frieze Artist Award in 2018, offers here, once more, a piece of rare and radical beauty.