Plunderphonics by Ziółek

Justyna Stasiowska writes of the dance performances of Marta Ziółek: Make Yourself (Komuna// Warszawa, 2016) and THIS (2015). The first play thematizes the links between choreography and technology, media, and economics, while the second alludes to the work of Tadeusz Kantor and his tactic of using poor objects as ready-mades. Stasiowska finds strategies in Ziółek’s work that borrow from a tendency in contemporary music called plunderphonics, which involves appropriating the work of other artists and remixing it, in the conviction that this change will improve the preexisting piece. As an example, the critic mentions how Ziółek inserts aspects of club culture into the terrain of the theater.