Maria Magdalena Kozlowska

About Maria Magdalena Kozlowska
Maria Magdalena Kozlowska is an artist and theatre maker born in Zielona Góra, Poland. She graduated from the College of Inter-Area Individual Studies In the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw and from the DAS Theatre program in Amsterdam. Her videos and performances portrait singing women and sonic utopias. She often works with classical musicians and opera singers, looking into the performance of music, as well as affective labour of singing voice. She also researches the entanglement of voice and landscape, building temporary stages in nature and public spaces. Her work has been exhibited by art and theatre institutions, such as Frascati Amsterdam, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Belluard Bollwerk Festival, Gessneralle Zürich, European Cultural Foundation and Venice Biennale of Art. 

About People versus Things 
You're in a dark room with a naked body and a glass of sand. Which one will prove to be a more successful performer? Which one has stronger presence, more political gravitas and sustainability? The future depends on your attention. Name your champion. ** "We begin to confront the thingness of objects when they stop working for us: when the drill breaks, when the car stalls, when the window gets filthy, when their flow within the circuits of production and distribution, consumption and exhibition, has been arrested, however momentarily. The story of objects asserting themselves as things, then, is the story of a changed relationship to the human subject and thus the story of how the thing really names less an object than a particular subject-object relation. As they circulate through our lives, we look through objects (to see what they disclose about history, society, nature, or culture - above all, what they disclose about us), but we only catch a glimpse of things." (Bill Brown, Thing Theory) ** I am you And you are me Whatever you decide to become I'll be there 

Credits
Maria Magdalena Kozlowska - concept, performances
Jan Tomza-Osiecki - costumes, set design