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2019

Performance, installation, video

City Art Centre, Gorzów Wielkopolski

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Co-authors:

Liza Beutler, Karina Kuberska, Tomek Paszkowicz

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We’re recalling the legend of three witch-sisters who were burned in Landsberg, a German town that now lies within Polish borders and is known as Gorzów Wielkopolski. We crossed the western border to buy a magical chemical powder—drawing on the Polish belief in the special power of German cleaning products—with which we performed a ritual in an old Polish washing machine affectionately called Frania. The ritual commemorated the sisters and honored the fluid identity of this peculiar borderland.