Performance as a Tool for Change is a year-long research-based artistic platform that explores performance not as artistic expression, but as a practice of analysing and transforming social reality. The project is grounded in the belief that in the face of contemporary crises—economic, political, climatic, and identity-based—performance can operate as an agentive tool for working with relationships, affect, and visibility.

Conceived as an experimental laboratory, the project combined theoretical reflection, performative practice, and educational formats. Its structure was built around three interconnected components: original critical analyses of texts from queer theory and performance studies; a series of in-depth video interviews with artists, activists, and researchers; and an open workshop programme focused on performance in everyday life.

Performance was approached not as spectacle, but as process—an embodied method of attentiveness, critical thinking, and relational work. The project examined both its emancipatory potential and its ambivalence as a technology of power. The project was realised as part of the Artistic Scholarship of the City of Warsaw, in collaboration with local artistic and activist communities. It resulted in an open online archive and a methodological report, and continues the author’s ongoing practice at the intersection of performance, education, and social reflection.