24.1.2026 at 15–16
1st floor, Kiasma Theatre

Tickets: 26 / 16 €
Includes admission to Kiasma’s exhibitions on the day of the performance. Note! Ticket sales will shift from online to Kiasma’s service desk one hour before the performance.

Future Tongues performance explores the future of language and bodily communication in the digital age, where speech and touch can be both pleasure and disturbance.

About
Future Tongues parts from the biblical story of the tower of Babel to speculate about the future of human communication. The work also references the 1982 science fction porn flm Cafe Flesh where, in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, the majority of people lose their sex drive, while a sex positive minority engages in acts of sexual theatre in front of fascinated audiences.

Understanding language as a constant practice of negotiating difference, Future Tongues approaches analogue communication technologies, like speech and touch. Intimacy –both pleasure and discomfort brought on by closeness –is preserved and exposed here like an extinct language or a relic of the past in this fast-developing digital culture.

What forms of embodied communication do we need today? Who has the right to speak their own language? Can we trust our collective intuition before we obey the authority of knowledge and power?

Ania Nowak
Ania Nowak‘s (PL/DE) choreographic practice approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can and cannot do. She develops formats such as live and video performance, installation and text. She lives and works in Berlin. Nowak’s previous visit at Kiasma Theatre was with solo performances To the Aching Parts! (Manifesto) & Deep Inside in 2023.

Credits
Concept, text, choreography, performance: Ania Nowak
Creation, performance: Oskar Malinowski, Aleksandra Osowicz, Rafał Pierzyński
Dramaturgy: Mateusz Szymanówka
Sound design: Justyna Stasiowska
Light design: Jędrzej Jęcikowski
Set design: “Mother Tongues Father Throats” by Slavs and Tatars
Costume Grzegorz Matląg
Tour management: Zuza Kubiak
Production: Nowy Teatr
Photos: Maurycy Stankiewicz