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Monika Gabriela Dorniak        
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Monika Gabriela Dorniak, Uprootedness & Hybridity, 2021. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Scores of Spectres

Workshop // 23.05.26 (2-5pm) // DAS MINSK, Potsdam, DE 

Physical and psychological experiences that our ancestors may have gone through during war or while fleeing can be passed on unresolved, fragmenting and alienating our very present. In this three-hour workshop, we use our imagination and our bodies as organic tools to collectively develop performative and visual scores that bring new, interspecies and plural life realities into our awareness and ease the presence of the past. The definition of scores employed in the workshop draws inspiration from Pauline Oliveros, who describes them as “systems of symbols.”

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Monika Gabriela Dorniak, Research Visit, Habscheid, 2025. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

The Figure of the Archive: Research Seminar

Talk // 02.03.2026 (3-6pm) // Centre for Art & the Political Imaginary, Gothenburg, SE

“The Living Archives of Rural WWII Sites” is a reflection from an artistic research project that interrogates the entangled agencies of soils, plants, and animals in rural landscapes, in particular forests, marked by the violence of the Second World War, opening the field of memory studies to interspecies perspectives and vernacular archives. Drawing from multi-generational accounts within German and Polish communities, whose connection to land is lived and embodied rather than symbolic, this work reveals rural environments as porous sites where traumatic interruptions persist in everyday practices. Bomb fragments in trees and the unearthing of live ordnance amidst agricultural labour become gestures of memory, underscoring the land’s capacity to both conceal and reveal histories that institutional discourses often silence. Through auto-ethnographical, agricultural, and collaborative artistic practices, this research demonstrates how rural vernacular archives, charged with silences and spectral presences, actively constitute incomplete and evolving narratives of post-war Europe. It is within these terrains that the distinction between ruin and restoration collapses, inviting new methodologies for reading matter as active participant, witness, and agent in processes of cultural remembrance.

RVSP via the CAP-Im website. 







Monika Gabriela Dorniak, Alienated Self, Performer: Alice Weber, 2016. Edited by Nick Koppenhagen. © VG Bild-Kunst,Bonn 2026

Guided Session #10 – Legacy of the (In-) Finite

Workshop // 18.03.2026 (8-10pm) // 0ct0p0s, DreamXchange, Online 

Grinding teeth, a paused inhale—yet another unfamiliar familiarity haunting us through a tense diaphragm and other psychosomatic echoes upon waking. Experiences from decades ago can still linger in our DNA, especially when the gatekeepers of our consciousness are slumbering. Drawing on studies and reflections on intergenerational trauma, this session explores how the inherited experiences of our families haunt us in our dreams, and invites participants to experiment with ways of easing these dreams through the composition of experimental, self-written slumber scores.

RVSP via the 0ct0p0s website.