A Thousand Objects with a Hole
Performance, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2024

This performance was realised during the Turnus Show project, which took place as part of the events surrounding the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The project was curated by Marcelina Gorczyńska and Kamila Falęcka — founders of the independent artistic-curatorial collective Turnus — in collaboration with Magdalena Komornicka and Horacy Muszyński. The musical backdrop for the event was provided by Cura and Miki Tkacz.

My performance was centred on a collection of a thousand objects with a hole, a body of work I have been continuously assembling since mid-2023 as part of an ongoing open performance of gathering. This collection was previously showcased during 12 Hours of What?, a twelve-hour performance I carried out as part of the Laboratory of Perception project organised by the Jerzy Grotowski Institute in Wrocław.

At the Museum of Modern Art, I presented my collection — which had since grown to encompass 1,000 objects — in a performance inspired by the aesthetics of a show. During the presentation, I shared stories about the discovery of selected objects from the collection. Similar to 12 hours of what?, I wore my "collector’s jumpsuit." An additional prop, absent from the Wrocław performance, was a wooden shoemaker’s suitcase I had discovered during one of my collecting walks. Importantly, the suitcase contained around seventy small metal objects with holes — such as washers and eyelets — used by shoemakers in their craft. I use this suitcase, much like Marcel Duchamp’s Box in a Valise, to display my open collection of objects with holes. Most recently, I showcased it during the exhibition Pockets Full of Stones.

Exhibition documentation courtesy of Karolina Jackowska ©
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