GENERATION AFTER SHOWCASE: REALITY CHECK
SEPTEMBER 7-9, 2023, WARSAW

Our brains create neural constructs based on experiential learning: patterns of thinking derived from our real-life experiences. Since we have had the experience of gravity our whole life, we don't need to repeatedly question it. We simply know that we can't float or take off while walking. What's worse, we get used to war, humanitarian and economic crises. To the idea that man is inherently evil. We became so accustomed to our reality we forget we can question it.

So, if we do decide to question reality on a regular basis, it pulls our consciousness into the now. We may even consider the possibility that we could be dreaming at this very moment. That is why, during the 7^th edition of the Generation After Showcase, with the invited artists and presenters, we will pay attention to our surroundings. We will study them in detail. And most importantly, we will question their nature by experimenting with reality and exploring the truth, the fiction, and everything in between.

When we least expect it, we may find ourselves in a dream. And the dream itself is more important than its fulfilment.

This is our reality check. Knock, knock, we check!

This is our reality check.

PROGRAMME

7.09.2023 

14:00-20:00 REGISTRATION 
Nowy Teatr x Foyer 

16:00 JaWa Janek Turkowski, Iwona Nowacka 
Komuna Warszawa 
80 min / Performative installation 

18:30 BLISS Ramona Nagabczyńska
National Museum x Foyer 
30 min / Performance 

(a shuttle bus to Nowy Teatr will be provided at 19:10) 

20:00 THE METAMORPHOSIS Grzegorz Jaremko 
Nowy Teatr x Main Stage 
160 min / Theatre 

22:40-24:00 OUR LIFE IS CRAP Alicja Borowiec
20 min / Film 
Nowy Teatr x Świetlica
Screening every 20 min 

8.09.2023 

10:00 JaWa Janek Turkowski, Iwona Nowacka 
Komuna Warszawa 
80 min / Performative installation 

11:00-12:30 JOINT BRUNCH courtesy of Adam Mickiewicz Institute 
Nowy Teatr x Foyer 

12:30 INSTITUTE FOR PERFORMATIVE LAW: WHO POISONED THE ODER RIVER? Michał Zadara 
Nowy Teatr x Foyer 
20 min / Lecture performance 

13:00 IN A VOID: PERFORMATIVE ARTS IN BELARUS Anna Karpenko 
Nowy Teatr x Foyer 
40 min / Lecture

15:00 122 WORDS ON MUSIC AND DANCE Marta Ziółek and Guests 
Basketball court near Nowy Teatr, Kazimierzowska 58 
60 min / Dance   

17:00 BOYS CRY Michał Buszewicz 
Dramatyczny Theatre x Small Stage 
90 min / Theatre 

20:00 MELODRAMA Anna Smolar 
Powszechny Theatre x Main Stage 
170 min / Theatre 

9.09.2023  

11:00-12:30 KISSING DOESN’T KILL Ania Nowak and Guests 
Museum of Modern Art – Museum on the Vistula 
Choreographic exhibition

13:00 PAIN Kinga Chudobińska-Zdunik
Theatre Academy 
65 min / Theatre 

(a shuttle bus to Nowy Teatr will be provided at 14:20) 

15:00 SHE WAS A FRIEND OF SOMEONE ELSE Gosia Wdowik 
Nowy Teatr x Main Stage 
65 min / Theatre

17:00 FAMILY Justyna Sobczyk
TR Warszawa x Main Stage 
90 min / Theatre 

(two shuttle buses to Komuna Warszawa and STUDIO theatregallery will be provided at 18:45) 

19:30 IMPERIAL Paweł Sakowicz 
Komuna Warszawa x Main Stage 
65 min / Dance 

19:30 THE EMPLOYEES Łukasz Twarkowski 
STUDIO theatregallery x Main Stage 
150 min / Performance-installation 

10.09.2023 | SPECIAL EVENT – ROAD TRIP TO CRACOW: ART OF LIVING Katarzyna Kalwat 
National Stary Theatre x Main Stage 
285 min / Theatre 

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Generation After 7. Showcase is financed by the Capital City of Warsaw. Project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Partners: TR Warszawa, Theatre 21 / Center for Inclusive Arts, Komuna Warszawa, The Gustaw Holoubek Dramatyczny Theatre, STUDIO theatregallery, The Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre, National Museum in Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art – Museum on the Vistula, The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art, The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre

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