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KATARZYNA (KASIA) SLOBODA



Since 2009, I have been involved in curating and researching practices of contemporary art, choreography, and improvisation in the context of exhibition-making and participatory projects. I have edited several publications on dance, choreography, and contemporary art.

I hold a PhD in Dance Studies from the Institute of Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. My dissertation, Embodied Attention in Contemporary Dance Practices in the Perspective of Critical Dance Studies, was supervised by Prof. Krystyna Duniec. I have taught courses at the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the University of Łódź, focusing on curatorial practices and the intersections of dance, choreography, and performance.

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor in Curatorial Studies at the Art Academy in Szczecin. Between 2009 and 2022, I was part of the curatorial team of the Modern Art Department at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.

I am a member of AICA – International Association of Art Critics and the Common Space initiative. Between 2021 and 2025, I served as a Board Member of the Forum Association of Dance Art Societies, and between 2019 and 2022, I was a member of CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.

Together with Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Ola Knychalska, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, and Kasia Właszczyk, I co-developed How to Touch Movement? Social Choreographies, Performance and Queer Feminisms as World-Making, a Kem School programme.

I am a recipient of the Grażyna Kulczyk Fellowship in the field of contemporary choreography and the Młoda Polska scholarship (2018). In 2018, I was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Dance Research at Roehampton University, London. In 2026, I graduated from the intensive course in experimental choreography organized by Centre in Motion / Burdąg Foundation.







︎ Email: katarzyna.sloboda@gmail.com

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The tender points are places that demand attention. Those that reveal their energy, relationships and multi-layered stories when you take the time to look at them closely. The proposed curatorial concept for the Narracje Festival is to find existing and create new tender points on the map of the Orunia district of Gdańsk. These will delineate spaces and routes for moving together, establishing contacts and relationships with art, people and the environment. Both the places where the artistic interventions will be located and the experience of the route between them are crucial to the concept of the festival. This formulation of the event will build new forms of understanding, relationship and engagement with the audience, going beyond active creators and passive spectators.  

Installations, multimedia and interactive works, as well as performative and ephemeral activities taking place throughout the festival, will serve to build a collective experience and attentiveness to the Orunia district - its history, architecture, social and natural fabric. Attention and attentiveness are at the same time the festival's theme, its aim and the methodology behind the programme. A particularly important role will be played by performative events in which the artists will invite participants to redirect their senses to a different way of relating to their surroundings (especially in the context of their relationship with the environment), sensitising them to these sensitive points and the paths between them. This tuning of the senses will allow the spectators and viewers to perhaps perceive differently from everyday life all the practices we will engage in during the festival, but also to experience in a different, more attentive way the relationships, places and situations that will not be included in the official programme. Together, over two days, we will build a responsive map of Orunia.

NOVEMBER 17-18, 2023 - GDAŃSK, ORUNIA


MORE INFO HERE: https://narracje.eu/en/