LA FIN

Performative installation

About installation

Performative installation by Monika Wachowicz and Jarosław Fret.

The performance La Fin concerns the deeply understood ecology of culture or – to quote Jerzy Grotowski – the ecology of interpersonal relations. It is not only the ecology of behaviors, micro – and macro rituals, but above all the ecology of the communication environment and the right to express oneself to others, which on the one hand is the foundation of Western culture, which is personalism, and on the other – it requires us to remember that we each create ourselves “in” and “thanks to” contact with another person.

The performance uses several initial fragments of masterpieces that constitute the canon of Western clasical music.

The main theme of La Fin is an act of Ablution with the last drop of pure water, before all water turns into crude oil.

La Fin quotes the first chapter of Guy Debord’s La Société du spectacle, ending it with one missing sentence: “War remains unparalleled among all spectacles.”

Concept
Jarosław Fret AND Monika Wachowicz
Stage movement, costumes and performance
Monika Wachowicz
Music
"Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber
Text
fragments of the Gospel of Thomas and "Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord
Live music
Jakub Karpoluk (Japanese ko-tsuzumi drum)
Girl
Amelia Helena Mazur
Video
Jarosław Siejkowski
Running time
40 min

Trailer

LA FIN

Presentations

The performance was performed at theatres and festivals in Poland and abroad, and was enthusiastically received by audiences.
Open Eyes Art Festival – Open Eyes Economy Summit. ICE, Kraków. (Perform[ing]Poland, Performance Art Review)
19.11.2024
European Solidarity Centre, Gdańsk. (Perform[ing]Poland, Performance Art Review)
24.11.2024
BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice
26.02.2025
International Performing Arts Festival A Part on Katowice. City of Gardens – Krystyna Bochenek Cultural Institution
02.06.2025
Festival BABEL FAST in Romania/Targowiste
14.06.2025
Hommage à Kieślowski in Sokołowsko/Poland
29.08.2025
International Host LAB Peguerinos/Espana
5.09.2025
Performance Review (PPP). Perforations. Provocations. Proclamations. Na Grobli Studio, the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław
5.12.2025
Laboratory Theatre at the Grotowski Institute
25.04.2026

Production

Katowice Miasto Ogrodów (TEATROGRANTY 2024, miasto-ogrodow.eu), the Grotowski Institute, Monika Wachowicz Studio of Body and Emotions and Studio Wachowicz/Fret