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Wed, Mar 18, 2026Lecture-PerformanceloVe making ᥫ᭡
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Notes on Spitting
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Krzysztof Bagiński, If I Can’t Dance, Anchan/Anna Daučíková, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Christina Della Giustina, Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Alina Popa

For this first festival afternoon, If I Can’t Dance has invited writer and curator Dani Blanga Gubbay to develop a dramaturgy of moments drawn from his four-part Mousse Magazine column, “Notes on Spitting.” The column explores the relationship between dance and choreography, and sex and pornography, merging theory and fiction within a 24-hour storyline.

“Notes on Spitting” is presented as an expanded reading. The text is interwoven with video works by Anchan / Anna Daučíková and Christina Della Giustina, drawings by Alina Popa (1982–2019), a score of ghostly gestures conceived by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, and soundscapes by Krzysztof Bagiński that slowly turn into a DJ set.

The result is a constantly shifting atmosphere, exploring unproductive pleasures, sexual drives, non-phallic eroticism, and the eruptive forces of volcanoes and bodily movement.

13:00 – Welcome, Maaike Lauwaert (Gerrit Rietveld Academie), Jorinde Seijdel (Studium Generale), Rietveld Uncut

13:15 – I: Out of the bushes at the foot of a volcano
Reading: Part 1. “The Texture of Time” ft. soundtrack from MariaHassabi’s “STAGED”.
Screening:“The Kissing Hour” (excerpt, 6m), Anchan/Anna Daučíková, 1997
“Water Diary 03” (excerpt, 6m), Christina Della Giustina, 2004/5
“Queen’s Finger” (3:54m), Anchan/Anna Daučíková, 1998
Drink: “This viscous friend of mine”Bubbly ayran (yogurt, still water, sparkling water, salt)Pickles
Reading: Part 2. “A Signature Truer Than the Name’
Drawings: Exhibition of drawings by Alina Popa, 2018/19
Looping: "Acquabelle” (17:44m), Anchan/Anna Daučíková & Christina Della Giustina, 1995

15:00 - Break

15:15 – II: The following morning, the following night
Reading: Part 3. ‘The Gaze, the Spider and the Whale"
Looping: Fragments from “Querelle”, Rainer Werner Fassbinder,1982
Drink: “The sky was already turning deep orange”Sunset Lava (orange juice, mango juice, drops of pomegranatesyrup, optional: rum)
Reading: Part 4. “Free Spit, or the Anti-Economy of Dance”
Music and sound-session: Krzysztof Bagiński
During the readings, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins performs a score of gestures.

17:00 - End

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