GUILTY PLEASURES

In his new choreographic work, Romuald Krężel merges two areas of his previous artistic and research practices: ecological and class discourse. “Guilty Pleasures” takes a critical look at climate politics strategies of recent decades, like carbon guilt and flight shame, that are navigated through affective dimensions of guilt and pleasure. Confronting them with the usually overlooked perspectives and needs of the working class, especially those employed in the energy sector, this work searches for common ground in which a climate movement for the many can take root.

In “Guilty Pleasures”, the politics of energy is confronted with its poetics. Channeled through electric guitars, energy becomes a material presence that prompts the questions: Where does power come from? The power that keeps our lights on? The power to change our systems?