10 years after the premiere of …/rooms by the sea/ exercises in looking, once again I decided to get there. Inspired by the rich research within the project Performance: Conservation Materiality Knowledge I decided to put on once more a Hopperesque glasses to witness 5 characters stubbornly traversing landscapes thick with micro gestures and sounds. We juxtaposed the outer and inner worlds, offering each other insights into ambiguous, yet at the same time so well known to us states of suspension, alienation, distance (also from each other), and longing for what is ungraspable and what escapes words. Celebrating at the same time the 10th anniversary of the Cracow Choreographic Center, we reactivated the choreographic language I have been developing for more than a decade, seeking physical and visual representation for the idea of a polyphonic body in which many voices do coexis, and struggle with these voices in excess, cacophony, noise. Continuing the exploration of the intersection of choreography and visual arts, we simultaneously asked where we have been headed several years after the global experience of forced isolation, and – as Johnathan Jones proclaimed in The Guardian (April 2020) – have we  we still felt trapped in Hopper’s images? And after decades of alienation by choice, do we desire and do we know how to hear each other and be together again ?”

The performance was accompanied by the set of postcards (leporello style souvenir from the trip) with pictures by Anna Zielińska 

work is designed for stage/frontal audience settings as well as for the open spaces a performative durational  installation.