Performance

Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it's endless

Friday 28 Oct 2022 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm

8 € (reduced) - 10 €

Ongoing

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, "Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless". Courtesy of the artist.

"Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless" is a choreography by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins that reflects on the relations of desire, dance, fragmentation, love (as communality), loss and time.

Through gesture, sensuality, touch and relationality, Baczynski-Jenkins’ practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories.

Choreography: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
In collaboration with and performed in various constellations: Agata Grabowska, Arad Inbar, Beverly D. Renekouzou, and Thomias Radin.
Curator of the performance at Lafayette Anticipations: Madeleine Planeix-Crocker
Project coordinator: Oksana Delaroff
Sound design & artistic advisor: Krzysztof Bagiński
Sound contributions: Zoi Michailova
Dramaturgy: Andrea Rodrigo
Poem: Ezra Green
Head pieces: Max Allen
With thanks to Dareen Abbas, Thibault Lac and Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Studio Manager: Sarie Nijboer
Curator & Tour Manager: Andrea Rodrigo
Executive Producer: Holly Shuttleworth

Co-producers and presenters: Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center, Lausanne; ANTI FESTIVAL, Kuopio; De Singel, Antwerp; Disappearing Berlin - Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; KIASMA, Helsinki; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Kunstverein Düsseldorf and Aachen; Kunstverein Cologne; Klosterruine, Berlin; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Museo Reina Sofía with Festival de Otoño, Madrid MDT, Stockholm

Developed with the generous support of a residency at Callie’s, Berlin and supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, "Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless". Courtesy of the artist. © Chloé Magdelaine
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, "Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless". Courtesy of the artist. © Chloé Magdelaine
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, "Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless". Courtesy of the artist. © Chloé Magdelaine
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is a choreographer and artist who explores themes of queer affect, embodiment, and relationality in his works.

His artistic practice investigates the structures and politics of desire through gestures, collectivity, touch, and sensuality. He uses choreography to reflect on feelings, perceptions, and collective emergence, exploring alternative experiences of memory, time, and change.

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins has presented work amongst others at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2022); Festival Sâlmon x MACBA, Barcelona (2023) Kölnischer Kunstverein (2022); Ludwig Forum Aachen (2022 and 2024 with schritt macher); Kiasma, Helsinki (2022); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2022). His solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2018); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). His work has also been presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); Swiss Institute, New York (2016); Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2016); and Liste Art Fair, Basel (2014). Baczyński-Jenkins’ debut feature film, Such Feeling, premiered at the Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2024).

He was the recipient of the Frieze Arist Award and the Arts Foundation Award in 2018. He was nominated for the Future Generation Art Award in 2021.