Gosia Wdowik is a theatre maker and active member of GILDIA, The Union of Polish Theatre Makers. Her heart is based in Poland, but her imagination is always somewhere else. During her Master Studies at DAS Theatre (2020-2022), she worked with the topic of burnout and explored the space between exhaustion and agency by implementing methods from activism into her artistic practice. Her main question was: how to create both theatre and change from a place of exhaustion?<\/p>\n
In her recent performance\u00a0Shame<\/em>\u00a0(NOWY TEATR, Warsaw) she explored social shame connected with the working-class origins in her own family, over three generations of women. Past works of Wdowik include\u00a0If you lived here<\/em>\u00a0with Tamara Antonijevic (Mousonturm, Frankfurt,)\u00a0Transit Monumental<\/em>\u00a0together with K.A.U. kollective (Spielart Festival, Munich),\u00a0Fiasko<\/em>\u00a0(Staatstheater, Darmstadt) and\u00a0Return of Goddess<\/em>\u00a0(Sophiensaele, Berlin). With\u00a0Girls\u00a0<\/em>(Theater Studio, Warsaw) and\u00a0Football players<\/em>\u00a0(TR Warsaw) she tackles the topic of bodily emancipation. In May 2023, her graduation work (DAS Theatre)\u00a0She was a friend of someone else<\/em>\u00a0premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.<\/p>\n In the summer of 2024 she made\u00a0Gloria \u2013 The Right to Be Desperate<\/em>\u00a0(Theater Neumarkt) voor Z\u00fcrcher Theater Spektakel where she explored the influence of Therapy culture on the rise of radical individualism. For her newest theater project\u00a0DEEPER<\/em> (CAMPO) she investigates the issue of gender-based digital violence and the idea of self-defence.<\/p>\n