Arts
Polish-born Rafał Pierzyński's („Pierre Jinski“, *1991 in Bełchatów) star is shining bright. After graduating with an MA in Movement Studies and Performance from the Institute of Dance Arts in Linz, Austria, in 2017, he is now trying to strike a balance between performing for choreographers and companies around Europe, and pursuing his own artistic path. In 2017, an invitation by Swiss artist Esther Eppstein and her «message salon embassy» residency programme brought him to Zurich, where he reunited with former accomplice Aga Pędziwiatr. During this residency not only did the two of them resume their collaboration as «DIVAS», but also has Rafał been creating striking collages from vintage gay porn magazines and objects from found materials. On January 12, 2018, he stopped by the recording booth to discuss the living experiment of a cooperative building association such as «mehr als wohnen» that he's been calling his home for the past three months, his approach to staying in touch with body and mind and how this relates to Hortense Spiller's idea of Black Culture, as well as how the documentary film «Story Telling for Earthly Survival» (Donna Haraway, 2016) informed the use of animal pictures in his collages. Join Rafał with fellow DIVAS Aga Pędziwiatr and Magda Drozd and hostess Esther Eppstein in a final get-together at «message salon embassy Zürich Nord» on Friday, January 26, 5-9 pm, for collages, dress up, undress, prosecco, body language, dance, performance, music, glitter and magic, and to pick up a free copy of Rafał's zine «Touching». https://www.pierrejinsky.com http://messagesalon.ch