Zapętlony czas: Notatki z pracy nad projektem performatywnym „LoopCurrent”

Katarzyna Pastuszak

doi:10.36744/k.4341

Time as a Loop

Notes From Work on the Performative Project LoopCurrent

Peer-reviewed article, Submitted 8.03.2025, Accepted 23.04.2025

Katarzyna Pastuszak

kasiajulia.pastuszak@gmail.com
Uniwersity of Gdańsk (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5254-4742

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36744/k.4341

Abstract

The article is a case study of the LoopCurrent art project, a starting point for the author’s reflections on the topic of time. Referring to the contemporary critique of linear and normative conceptions of time, she examines the relationship between the performing arts and time-consciousness. In doing so the author analyses in detail the process of creative work on the LoopCurrent performance, which she presents as an example of performing posthuman looped time and a search for new narratives about the future that take into account both human and more-than-human temporalities.

Keywords:

new choreography, timefullness, chronodiversity, posthuman time, practice as research

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2025-09-10

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Pastuszak, K. (2025) “Time as a Loop: Notes From Work on the Performative Project LoopCurrent”, Konteksty, 349(2), pp. 141–148. doi: 10.36744/k.4341.

Authors

Katarzyna Pastuszak
kasiajulia.pastuszak@gmail.com
Uniwersity of Gdańsk Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5254-4742

Katarzyna Pastuszak – dancer/performer, choreographer and artistic director of Amareya Theatre & Guests, assistant professor in the Department of Performing Arts Research (Institute of English and American Studies - University of Gdansk), member of the Between.Pomiędzy Research Group, also associated with the Centre for Environmental and Minority Policy Studies (Sapporo, Japan). Author and translator of articles on dance and theatre, editor and translator of Studia Choreologica, and author of Hijikata Tatsumi’s Ankoku butō – the theatre of body-in- crisis (2014). She has published in Didaskalia, Kultura Współczesna, Teatr, Tekstualia, among others. She is the winner of an individual Award of the Rector of the UG IV degree, as well as numerous artistic scholarships awarded by the City of Gdańsk, the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. She is currently pursuing an artistic and research scholarship project Ecologies of Dance within the framework of the National Reconstruction Plan (KPO) program for culture. Her performances have been presented in Japan, Greenland, Norway, Turkey, Israel, Germany, France and numerous festivals in Poland, among others. In her artistic activities, she mainly moves in the area of new choreography and physical theater, combining movement explorations with current currents of humanistic thought. In recent years, her artistic and practical-research activities have been rooted in post-humanist thought and ecology. Projects completed in this area include: Spore Fantasy (sf) co-created with Nat Chylińska (2024), Braiding Time, Memory and Water (dir. Sue Schroeder, 2024), LoopCurrent (dir. Maya Ciarrocchi, 2024), Instabilités naturelles (co-created with Sonnets Trois Fois – France and Nat Chylińska – PL, 2023), Mapping Bodies, Landscapes, Relations (2023), Re:fungia – the fungi score (2022).