Monika Błaszczak & Elias Brown - Vexations (performance)

Name: Monika Błaszczak & Elias Brown - Vexations (performance)
Start: 2026-03-07T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-07T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Hosek Contemporary

Schedule

Sat Mar 07 2026 at 10:00 am to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Hosek Contemporary | Berlin, BE

Hošek Contemporary is pleased to host Vexations, a performance by Monika Błaszczak & Elias Brown.
Vexations is a durational performance by musician Elias Brown and dance artist Monika Błaszczak, based on Erik Satie’s enigmatic composition, written around 1893-1894. The score consists of a brief musical theme to be repeated 840 times, after the composer’s suggested preparation “in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities.” Composed during Satie’s involvement with the esoteric Ordre du Temple de la Rose + Croix, the piece remained unpublished during his lifetime, only to be rediscovered and premiered by John Cage in 1963.
Brown and Błaszczak reimagine Vexations as a 12-hour work for solo dancer and piano. Satie’s deceptively simple, wandering theme is set against a minimalist choreography where the recursive repetition of a single movement pattern generates slow, granular evolution. The work invites audiences into a dense present tense, challenging the stability of our perception in the face of an increasingly fluid reality. Can repetition open a portal to transformation?
In homage to Cage’s gesture from the premiere performance, audience members will receive a one euro refund of their ticket cost per hour spent in attendance.
Admission : 12 € at the doors
Duration : 12 hours from 10 AM to 10 PM. Entering and leaving is possible at any time during the performance.
With kind support of theaterhaus berlin.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Monika Błaszczak is a Polish-Łemko dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. Her practice intertwines movement with themes of embodied memory, speculative ecologies, and the transformative power of love. Błaszczak has presented her work at institutions such as Tate Modern, the V&A Museum, Polish Dance Theatre, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and more. She holds an MA from NYU Tisch in NYC and a BA from Trinity Laban in London. She is a professional ballerina.
Elias Peter Brown is a conductor, composer, improviser, and curator, seeking to create meaningful spaces for listening in and out of the concert hall. This season he makes his conducting debuts with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Danish and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestras. Outside of his work as a conductor, he has taught courses on music curating at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, and his work as composer has been performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Krama Festival in Athens, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius.
The gallery is located at
Motor Ship HEIMATLAND
Märkisches Ufer 1z
10 179 Berlin-Mitte
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www.hosekcontemporary.com