Iza Koczanowska – artist and researcher – Berlin / Amsterdam
Bulk


2021

Performative interventions in Polish

housing estates, photography, sculp-

tural interpretations


The urban fabric shapes bodies,

influencing how they move, inhabit,

and respond to space. Architectural

remnants of post-communist hous-

ing estates, metal rods, playground

structures, worn surfaces, carry traces

of past tensions, structuring behaviour

and producing a dialogue between


body and environment.

Through embodied engagement, the

body is placed within these elements

as a testing ground, entering states of

friction, pressure, and alignment with

architectural forms. Contact, resistance,

and repetition operate as methods

through which the city inscribes itself

onto the body, while bodily presence

simultaneously shifts the perception

and organisation of space.