Moving in November – Karolina Kucia: We’s and Us’s

Karolina Kucia’s workshop invites participants to explore the tactics of parasitism

  • 16.11.2025 at 10–12.30
  • 16.11.2025 at 14–16.30
1st floor, Kiasma Theatre
Tickets: 20 / 12 €
Ticket includes admission to Kiasma's exhibitions on the day of the event.
in English

About

We’s and Us’s is a training session in parasitic tactics for dealing with IN’s and OUT’s. This is an experiment in social mutation and the monstrous strategies of various WE’s and US’s.  The session includes a series of instructive mini-performances, score-led collective exercises, interacting with performing objects, and the screening of the film We Bites Us. It aims to radically rethink ‘access’, ‘trust’, ‘togetherness’ and ‘organisation’. It may be useful for finding personal and collective ways of managing circumstances that have become unrecognisable, hostile, or overly hospitable. What kind of social mutability is necessary to resist the precarisation of working conditions in post-neoliberal art institutions? Parasitic tactics and monstrous strategies are a possible answer.

The session is a part of the Focus on the Local Landscape within the frame of Moving in November 6.-16.11.2024.

For whom?

The Workshop is open for everyone and it will be held in English. The duration is 2,5h, including a break.

If you use a wheelchair, we kindly ask you to contact the Kiasma service desk in advance: info@kiasma.fi.

Karolina Kucia

Karolina Kucia (she/they) is a Polish-born/Helsinki-based visual artist working with moving image, object making and performative interventions. Karolina graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Intermedia from Poznan Academy of Fine Arts in 2004 and earned a Master of Theatre Arts and Drama, in Live Art and Performance Studies from Theatre Academy Helsinki in 2014. She is currently finalizing her doctoral artistic research Monstrous Agencies – Resisting Precarisation: Tools and Models for Collaboration in the Arts at the Performing Arts Research Centre, Uniarts, Helsinki. Her main interests are lapse, glitch, and stutter as well as parasitism and monstrosity in the context of precarisation of labour in post-neoliberal capitalism and the current form of art institutions. Her works were presented in SESC Pinheiros in São Paulo, nGbK in Berlin, Kunsthalle Helsinki and the Museum of Modern Arts in Warsaw among others. She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude and her work is funded by the Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Saastamoinen Foundation, and Frame Contemporary Art Finland among others.

Credits

Concept, form and facilitation: Karolina Kucia
Photo: Janina Witkowski (still frame from the We Bites Us film)
In collaboration with: Kiasma Theatre, The Performing Arts Research Centre Tutke and Uniarts

We Bites Us (2023) Film

Script and direction: Karolina Kucia
Producer: Danai Anagnostou
Cast: Vishnu Vardhani Rajan, Esete Sutinen, Oo Condit, Roxana Sadvokassova, Fjolla Hoxha, Marié Grace Iradukunda
Editor: Smaro Papaevangelou
Cinematographer: Janina Witkowski
Sound designer: Lou Strömberg
Composers: Elvin Brandhi, L T Leif, Robyn Anne Dawson, Air Max ‘97
Intimacy coordinator: Marit Östberg
Creative technologists: Gregoire Rousseau, Angelina Barbonelova, Alain Ryckelynck
Animation: MASCISTA
Makeup artist: Siham Sheikh
Costume designer: Marié Grace Iradukunda
Set designers: Maria Mastola, Karolina Kucia
Supported by: Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Saastamoinen Foundation, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (AVEK), Omron Electronics Oy, Performing Arts Research Centre – Tutke, Kenno Film Osk