Playground: Gathering- To change the soul. Collaborative art practice and post-capitalist imaginaries with Alicja Rogalska

To change the soul. Collaborative art practice and post-capitalist imaginaries.

On the 29th of October at 7-8.30pm the Playground welcomes interdisciplinary artist Alicja Rogalska.

The artist talk and screening will focus on a few examples from Alicja Rogalska’s socially-engaged art practice from the last decade with topics ranging from critique of affective labour to creating collective visions for alternative futures and economic science fictions. She will talk about the methods of her research-led practice and how she develops her projects; often conducted in collaboration with diverse groups of people: from migrant workers and asylum seekers to farmers and feminist activists. Through these collaborations, she explores themes such as labour, gender, migration, social inequalities and sustainability using video, performance, and installation. Her projects aim to build solidarity and collective hope for social change. Most recently she has been using speculative fabulation and utopia as methods of critically addressing crises of imagination and narrating desirable futures, especially in the context of the climate crisis.

Alicja Rogalska is a Polish-British interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin and working internationally. She recently presented her work at Biennale Matter of Art (Prague, 2024), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2024), Biennial Videobrasil (São Paulo, 2023-24), New Contemporaries (London & Blackpool, 2023-24), Jogja Biennale (Yogyakarta, 2023), Urbane Künste Ruhr (Essen, 2023), Scherben/Berlin Art Prize (2022, main prize), Manifesta 14 Prishtina (2022), Temporary Gallery (2021-22), Kunsthalle Wien (2020-21) and OFF Biennale (2020-21). Rogalska is currently a PhD researcher in the Art Department at Goldsmiths College in London, was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program in 2020-21, and an artist in residence at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2023), Faculty of Social Sciences at Essex University (2019-22), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, 2019) and The Stuart Hall Library (London, 2019).

Free Entry register at info@playground-nomadicground.com