Liquid Immersion is an ongoing socio-cultural research and a collective performance. It consists in the artist’s complete immersion in the material conditions of an individual or a small community (e.g., a family) for a period of time.

This creative laboratory explores the boundaries between life and art. I immerge myself in the life of others and the way in which it is dictated by their environment, giving myself over. Through my relation with the participant, based on empathy and dialogue, I question their gestures, attitudes, words and environment in an attempt at communion and identification. For the participants, the experiment generates disruption, self-questioning and confusion regarding their roles as spectator, but also creator of the performance.

By activating the body and the intuitive, the visual and the affect, the project searches to transform reality and to create symbolic spaces that generate individual, social and political forms of subversion.

I am carrying on this project with new participants. The project was made in collaboration with Makan Art Center (Amman, JO) and A Kuku Sztuka Association (Gdansk, PO). I wish to thank the participants.

Iga and Kostek farewell, documentation of a performance in a Polish family, Oliwa (PO), 2010