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KATARZYNA (KASIA) SLOBODA



Since 2009 I am 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 have a Ph.D in dance studies (thesis: Embodied attention in contemporary dance practices in the perspective of critical dance studies / Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw // supervisor: prof. Krystyna Duniec). I was teaching classes at at the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the University of Łódź (curatorial practices, dance/choreography/performance).

Currently I’m an Assistant Professor in curatorial studies at the Art Academy in Szczecin. Between 2009 and 2022 I had been a part of curatorial team at the Modern Art Deparment in Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz.

I am a member of AICA - International Association of Art Critics, as well as Board Member of Forum Association of Dance Art Societies and Common Space collective. 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 developed How to touch movement? Social choreographies, performance and queer feminisms as world-making kem school programme.   

I am a recipient of Grażyna Kulczyk fellowship in the field of contemporary choreography and Młoda Polska scholarship (2018). In 2018 I was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Dance Studies / Roehampton University, London.







︎ Email: katarzyna.sloboda@gmail.com

texts and publications ︎ academia.edu

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"THE GREAT BOOK OF SCORES is a collection of recipes for elixirs that can stimulate you to weave visions together and embody fantasies of a queer future. It was created by two collectives with different dynamics and histories: QUEER MOVEMENT ACADEMY and Przestrzeń wspólna. For the past five months, individuals from these collective bodies in a variety of configurations and psychophysical states have danced, written, drawn, sung, listened, laughed and cried together, tirelessly overcoming piles of emails, piled up excel tables, and an untold number of online and offline meetings to share with you recipes for creating temporary, embodied communities and multi-sensory experiences.(...)

(...) The QUEER MOVEMENT ACADEMY and COMMON SPACE initiative is an attempt to build a supportive and co-learning community whose principle of being is generosity and mutual care. Now we want to share the recipes for building such communities with you!"


"Scorings are otherwise known as scores, open to interpretation instructions and proposals that are used to creatively record ideas for shared movement practices. The bodily practices to which we want to invite you come from our experiences, the result of sharing them with each other during our meetings. They emerged from spontaneous raptures or planned experiments carried out in various contexts and configurations. In the Book, they become dynamic, open material for constant experimentation, repetition, change, adaptation and fine-tuning, depending on the needs, context and people. In creating practices and scorings, we are inspired by choreographic thinking, the not/everyday experience of bodies, relationships and sensuality, in a constant exchange of energy, matter and sensation.

In our collectives, we create spaces where the body expresses itself and manifests its language hitherto relegated to the margins. The very focus on the production of movement, on how the body breathes, what mobility it has, how it runs, becomes a tool to try to think the world anew, differently. Our practices allow us to listen to the constantly emerging collective body and feel it in our guts."

translation: Bartosz Jakubowski

more photos and info: https://warszawa.krytykapolityczna.pl/dzialanie/pwst5/wielka-ksiega-scorow/

Conception and production: Magda Czech, Alicja Czyczel, Bartosz Jakubowski, Jagna Nawrocka, Aleksandra (Alek) Sarna, Magdalena Siemaszko, Katarzyna Słoboda, Paulina Woźniczka

Coordination: Katarzyna Słoboda, Paulina Woźniczka
Coordination of Warsaw plein-air: Magda Czech
Coordination of plein-air in Teremiski: Magdalena Siemaszko
Coordination of celebration: Alicja Czyczel
Coordination of production of the Great Book of Scores: Jagna Nawrocka
Deisgn and layout: Aleksandra (Alek) Sarna
Photos: Bartosz Jakubowski, Teresa Więcko, Marta Kaczmarek

Workshops: Natalia Oniśk & Dana Chmielewska, Szymon Adamczak, Natalia Sarata & Wiktoria Siedlecka-Dorosz

The cards were created through the work of the member individuals of the QAR and PW collectives, who participated in the joint production of collective and embodied knowledge:

Aaa Biczysko
Aga Sterczyńska
Aleksandra (Alek) Sarna
Alicja Czyczel
Alicja Nauman
Anna Bolewska
Jurdzi
Anna Maria Tuszyńska
Bartosz Jakubowski
Hanna Raszewska-Kursa
Ida Ślęzak
Ignacy Hryniewicz
Jagna Nawrocka
Jolaś Anioł
Julia Hoczyk
Kasia Skoczylas
Kasia Sztarbała
Katarzyna Słoboda
Kola Kluczyk
Konrad Kurowski
Magda Czech
Magdalena Siemaszko
Maria Hołdys
Marta Kaczmarek
Natalia Oniśk
Olo Rusinek
Paulina Woźniczka
Pipek
Tere Więcko
Weronika Perłowska
Zuzanna Berendt