"Feelings are facts"*

Image courtesy: Stan Baranski

This concert/ritual is a tribute to the LOSS. Loss can lead to freedom. Loss can be a blessing and pleasure as well as space for healing and grieving. Vala will sing to her female ancestors, to the Divine Goddess that is gender fluid, to the infinite fem_ness, and to the Wisdom of Mother Earth. In this concert Vala refers to her own family and her house history. She connects with her beloved grandmothers, sisters, fathers, brothers and the nature companions that guided her in her process of LOSS. Vala questions the private and public, and offers her own personal history and feelings, thoughts and corporality to the public - named as friends and companions.

there’s something joyous about
making something personal and vulnerable
into a community ritual
Vala wants to talk bodies
Vala wants to talk pleasures
Vala wants to talk freedom

* "Feelings are facts" is a title of Yvonne Rainer's book, an American choreographer and visual artist.

Vala was co-director and co-founder of independent art institution Krakow Art House - the home for creative arts in the a century old villa in the city of Krakow. Due to the new investor's decision Vala and her community was forced to move out. This was a procedure done against the law and Vala became homeless by the end of May, 2018. Vala is also the mother and curator of "Lamella the house of queer arts" that supports LGTBQI+ community, that had its headquarters in Krakow Art House.

Vala is poetic choreographer, queer witch, priestess of love, disobidient shape-shifter, devotional singer, visual mythology artist, sexual healer and peace activist. In September 2018 Vala was running a political campaign for the position of the Presidency/Mayer of the city of Krakow in Poland as a first transgender candidate in the history of Poland.

This concert is happening in the frame of platform blind_spot.
platform blind_spot is a short term soft and powerless institution that aims to develop the values of passivity, weakness, subtlety and deceleration through the means of contemporary art, cultural collectivism, mumblecore modality, and alternative economical relations.