Artist Talk: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Thursday, November 21, 6 – 7pm
Minnesota Orchestra, Green Room
1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Public parking available at the corner of S 11th St and S Marquette Ave
“I’ve said this before: who you want to work with is who you want to share your life with. My works often become both an occasion and a means for relations to develop. The politics of friendship, desire, love and community are as embedded within the choreographies themselves as they are in the process that brings them into being”
– Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Mousse Magazine, Issue 68, Summer 2019
FD13 residency for the arts welcomes Warsaw and London-based artist, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins (b. 1987). Baczyński-Jenkins’ choreographic work employs dance, micro-gesture and poetic language in order to celebrate and make public a queer politics of desire. This visit marks the first of two trips Baczyński-Jenkins will make to Minneapolis, returning again in September 2020 to present a newly commission performance in response to the architecture and history of Peavey Plaza, the artists’ first U.S. commission.
On November 21, join Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, and FD13 Director, Sara Cluggish, for a discussion of choreography as a relational and political practice. In addition to speaking about previous and forthcoming works, Baczyński-Jenkins will discuss KEM, an LGBTQ+ collective co-founded by the artist and his close collaborators in Warsaw. This talk will consider the urgency of such collective mobilization in Poland, the artists’ home country, where in recent years the state government and church have posed threats to LGBTQ+ and feminist and freedom of expression.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ residency events are made possible with generous support from lead project donors Ellen and Jan Breyer.