68 Toasts to a Flawed Heart
Anita Wach
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Reason and the flawed heart
68 Toasts to a Flawed Heart is dedicated to Barbara Kozłowska. The performance refers to her as an artist, poet and artistic subject – a personality set in a political and historical context and a person who lived 68 years, 272 seasons and approximately 816 months. Influenced by the poetic and conceptual purity of Kozlowska’s art, Anita Wach decides to expose her body to the forces of gravity. She uses herself as a reference point for both human and universal nature. Like Kozlowska, Wach treats her body as an inseparable part of the surrounding world in terms of time, space and laws of nature. The performance is designed as a genetic fusion of the two women’s biographies and artistic approaches. The audience is invited to a celebration of universal patterns of art (and life) as infinite and fragile processes. Placed on top of a ‘tower’ constructed from products of the human mind, a performer try to maintain a precarious equilibrium between elation and instability. Guided by a desire to merge structured reason and the flawed heart, she leads the celebration, standing at the point where the most mundane yet imminent matters meet those of cosmic magnitude.
Photo: Nada Žgank
Photo: Nada Žgank
Photo: Nada Žgank
Photo: Nada Žgank
Photo: Nada Žgank
Photo: Nada Žgank
Photo: Nada Žgank
68 Toasts to a Flawed Heart
2025
Solo performance • 50 min
The performance is part of the performative program curated by Ana Grobler, Sebastian Krawczyk, and Agnieszka Chodysz-Foryś.
Concept, text and performance — Anita Wach
Organiser — Center for Culture and Art Wrocław – Lower Silesian Government Cultural Institute
Co-organisers — Mala galerija BS, Arton Foundation, City of Women, KUD Mreža
Partner — Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Honorary patronage — Marta Cienkowska – Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and Łukasz Paprotny – Acting Chargé d’Affaires of the Republic of Poland in Ljubljana.
The project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund and the budget of the Lower Silesian regional government.
