Projects—Master PPS Performing Public Space

Jun 25

Jun 25 THE NON-TIME BREAKER(S)

CLASS 2025/26

This research investigates how movement-based and sound-oriented performative practices can transform railway stations from spaces of transit into sites of collective encounter. Focusing on Cologne Central Station, it draws on Marc Augé’s concept of the non-place to examine how stations are shaped by anonymity, speed, and functional movement patterns.

Through performative interventions combining movement, listening, and audioscape practices, the project explores ways of disrupting these spatial and behavioral structures. The collective serves as both a methodological framework and a mode of shared embodied experience. In workshop-based formats, participants engage waiting and circulation areas through somatic and sonic practices that interrupt habitual transit behaviors and foster co-presence, relational awareness, and social interaction.

Sound and music operate not only as atmospheric elements but also as carriers of shared affect and collective embodiment, creating moments of common presence among participants and passersby. By intervening in the station’s everyday logic, the project examines how transitional infrastructures can be temporarily reimagined as spaces of public interaction, embodied connection, and collective experience.

Natalia Kozakiewicz

Natalia is a polish dancer, perfomer-reseacher and choreotherapist based in Cologne. Educated at the Academy of Physical Education in Poznań (BA in Dance Choreotherapy) and the University of Music and Dance Cologne (MA in Dance Mediation), and completed the Master of Performing Public Space in Tilburg, the Netherlands. She works at the intersection of movement, space, and community. Her artistic practice is rooted in a fascination with performance in public spaces and the ways dance can act as a form of mediation and activism. Moving between performing, teaching, and writing, Natalia seeks to create spaces where dance becomes both an artistic and social gesture.