23.11.2024 . from 6 pm
A themed evening in cooperation with Deutsch-Polnisches Haus.
PASKUDNIK
6 pm . Performance by Tubi Malcharzik
As part of the exhibition Tubi Malcharzik shows excerpts of the performance PASKUDNIK, which takes a queer view on their German-Polish, Silesian family history. Based on myths of the beauty of Polish women, high cheekbones, red velvet dresses, the performance touches on themes of gender roles, sexuality, non-binary attributions of Silesia as a borderland as well as on anti-Slavism. Immersive soundscapes, narrative fragments and imagination open a queer and post-migrant space of memory.
Artistic collaboration & support: Dila Kaplan, Marty Flegel / Music & sound: Luyu Zou, (mohammad) adika Rahman
Blurring Binaries. Silesian migrant condition, fluid identity and the politics of shame
6:30 pm . Discussion with Tubi Malcharzik (they/them / performer and dramaturge), Julia Nitschke (performer and author) and Alina Strzempa (Slavic linguist and cultural scientist), moderated by Paweł Świerczek (dramaturg, performer, producer and (neuro)queer activist).
Migration stories from Upper Silesia have their own flavour. Historically living in the borderlands between Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria, the Silesians have often been forced to claim their identity. And in each country they have always remained the other. How does this fluid national condition affect the experience of migration? What if we add other intersecting identities (such as gender identity, class, disability)? What does shame have to do with all this?
In this conversation, we will look at both historical stories of migration (starting with the miners who travelled to the Ruhr for work in the 19th century) and the echoes that the past leaves in the lives of second or third generation of migrant families.
