Monika Popiel creates interdisciplinary multisensory works that intertwine:

• documentary fieldwork,

• community art,

• performative arts (focused on somatic work and choreography),

• textile art, mixed new media

• creative coding.
   

 

Throughout  the creative process, the focus is on:

• the sense of touch, interpreted in a broader context, beyond physical contact: touch as a journey towards you (to u(ch))*,
  as a way of engaging with the world, connecting with others and navigating our surroundings

 

• skin as both a boundary and an interface, becoming a dynamic and infinite territory of negotiation

 

• space as a dynamic collective body (holobiont, ecosystem), emerging from accidental encounters

 

• identity as a dynamic processes of accidental encounters, collisions,  and exchanges: 1+1=1+ too many to count*,
  where "I" transitions fluidly between "we" and "they," and where "I" evolves into a verb.
  
  *see Erin Manning "Politics of Touch"