DEEPER

In DEEPER, Polish theater maker Gosia Wdowik deals with gender-specific violence in the digital space. Based on interviews with teenagers, she critically examines the ongoing production and reproduction of images depicting female bodies in the context of sexuality and violence. What impact do these images have on the lives of young people and what tactics do they develop to navigate the world under these impressions? In her new performance DEEPER, which will be premiered at the Theaterformen festival, she brings these testimonies to the stage with the help of professional actresses, thus opening up a dialog between different generations of women. The result is a space for solidarity in which girls and women defend their right to sexual self-determination.

Gosia Wdowik works as a theater maker both in the independent scene and at state theaters. In her more recent works, she has explored, among other things, the topic of social shame that can be associated with coming from a working-class background and dealt with the issue of physical emancipation. She also explored the space between exhaustion and agency by integrating methods from activism into her artistic practice. Her main question was: How can one create both theater and change from a place of exhaustion?