Ania Nowak, Future Tongues. Photo: Maurycy Stankiewicz
Departing from the Tower of Babel and the 1982 errotic science fiction film Café Flesh — in which a nuclear apocalypse splits humanity into the sex-positive few, forced to perform, and the sex-negative many, compelled to watch—Nowak's performance speculates on the future of human communication. In Future Tongues, intimacy—its pleasure and its discomfort—is treated as an endangered language: a form of embodied exchange increasingly out of place in a digital culture shaped by AI and authoritarian politics.