Reason NOW!: Filip Pawlak
May 2024
How does a social sense of pride in belonging to a particular social group emerge? Does it have to be founded on trauma? Do disabled people have access to their own melancholy and experience of grief?
The producer, performer and activist Filip Pawlak works with these questions within a larger research on disability that he is conducting in various formats and venues. During the residency Filip Pawlak juxtaposes these topics with the experience of the LBGTQ+ community and links the two groups using references to important identity events – the AIDS epidemic and the COVID epidemic.