Guilty Pleasures
Performance · Premiere by Romuald Krężel
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In the frame of Fold: Energie der Erzählungen
In his new choreographic work, Romuald Krężel merges two areas of his previous artistic and research practices: ecological and class discourse. “Guilty Pleasures” takes a critical look at climate politics strategies of recent decades, like carbon guilt and flight shame, that are navigated through affective dimensions of guilt and pleasure. Confronting them with the usually overlooked perspectives and needs of the working class, especially those employed in the energy sector, this work searches for common ground in which a climate movement for the many can take root. In “Guilty Pleasures”, the politics of energy is confronted with its poetics. Channeled through electric guitars, energy becomes a material presence that prompts the questions: Where does power come from? The power that keeps our lights on? The power to change our systems?
In his new choreographic work, Romuald Krężel merges two areas of his previous artistic and research practices: ecological and class discourse. “Guilty Pleasures” takes a critical look at climate politics strategies of recent decades, like carbon guilt and flight shame, that are navigated through affective dimensions of guilt and pleasure. Confronting them with the usually overlooked perspectives and needs of the working class, especially those employed in the energy sector, this work searches for common ground in which a climate movement for the many can take root. In “Guilty Pleasures”, the politics of energy is confronted with its poetics. Channeled through electric guitars, energy becomes a material presence that prompts the questions: Where does power come from? The power that keeps our lights on? The power to change our systems?
Romuald Krężel
Romuald Krężel (he/him) is a Polish-born artist who lives and works in Berlin. He holds an MA in choreography and performance from the Justus Liebig University in Gießen. His artistic work is based on expanded choreographic practices that incorporate visual and performative elements. The resulting movement-based performances, site-specific installations, participatory projects, videos and other hybrid formats explore themes such as labor, resistance, class struggle, climate change and the potential exchange between humans and non-humans.
Concept, Artistic Direction, Choreography: Romuald Krężel
From and with: René Alejandro Huari Mateus, MINQ, Melanie Jame Wolf
Dramaturgy, Text: Cory Tamler
Light Design, Technical Direction: Annegret Schalke
Projection Design: Fag Tips
Sound Design: Samuel Hertz
Costumes: Maldoror
Production: Anna Konrad
A production by Romuald Krężel in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of the residency program of HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts, Dresden. The research process was supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.