I Will Bleed For a Better Reason Next Year

“When your heart is beating there is blood flowing in and out your face. So when you can not imagine change, make room for words to be born.“

I Will Bleed For a Better Reason Next Year is a new project by theatre maker Gosia Wdowik, which can be seen at the entrance of De Balie during Forum on European Culture.

Gosia Wdowik (1988) is a theatre maker and active member of GILDIA, The Union of Polish Theatre Makers. During her Master Studies at DAS Theatre (2020-2022), she worked with the topic of burnout and explored the space between exhaustion and agency by implementing methods from activism into her artistic practice. In her recent performance Shame (NOWY TEATR, Warsaw) she explored social shame connected with the working-class origins in her own family, over three generations of women. In the summer of 2024 she made Gloria – The Right to Be Desperate (Theater Neumarkt) for Zürcher Theater Spektakel where she explored the influence of Therapy culture on the rise of radical individualism. For her newest theater project DEEPER (CAMPO, Ghent) she investigates the issue of gender-based digital violence in conversation with teenagers. 

About Forum on European Culture
Who’s afraid of art? Now that tyrants are on the roll and more and more people in the West seem to be falling for the autocratic alternative, Forum on European Culture 2025 (June 25 – June 29) brings together international artists, writers, and thinkers to celebrate the subversive power of art and literature.