Notes on Spitting
Dani Blanga Gubbay
ft. Krzysztof Bagiński and Alina Popa’s drawings

Notes on Spitting is an expanded reading grounded in a series of recent texts in which Dani Blanga Gubbay explores the relations between dance and choreography, sex and pornography. Blending theory and fiction, the reading moves through references to dance performances, André Lepecki, Susan Sontag’s The Volcano Lover, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, and the possibility of thinking dance as a force rather than a form. It introduces the notion of counter-choreography, imagined as a corroding gesture—like saliva spat onto a stain to dissolve it—capable of softening categories of perception.

The iteration is accompanied by an exhibition of drawings by Alina Popa (1982–2019), a sound session by Krzysztof Bagiński, a loop from Fassbinder’s Querelle (1982), and a series of two saliva-inducing cocktails.

Notes on Spitting was originally commissioned and published in Mousse Magazine (issues 91–94). In this iteration, as part of Cristina Kristal Rizzo’s public program, the reading unfolds through two chapters: A Signature Truer Than the Name and Free Spit, or the Anti-Economy of Dance.

DANI BLANGA GUBBAY
Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a writer and performing arts curator. He served as artistic direction of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels (2018-2026). He has worked as an educator and independent curator of performance and public programs, including for the latest Bienal de São Paulo (2025); Yogurt and Other Spaces of Labour, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2021), in collaboration with Zeynep Öz; and Can Nature Revolt?, Manifesta, Palermo (2018). He holds a PhD from the University of Palermo and is among the founding members of Celador, a space for experimenting with language in Brussels, as well as a member of the artistic committee of the Beirut Art Centre. He teaches regularly, including a weekly class titled Contemporary Salmon at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He writes in various contexts, sometimes publishing under the name Dani—a personal, night name—following a lineage of artists and writers who use a diminutive to signal intimacy, experimentation, and a shift in tone, their signature becoming a voice more than a label.

KRZYSZTOF BAGIŃSKI
Krzysztof Bagiński is an artist and organizer from Poland. He is a co-curator of W Brzask (At Dawn), a series of experimental music shows in Warsaw. As a sound artist, he works closely with choreography and performance.

ALINA POPA
Alina Popa cared for a place from which it is possible to have artistic consequences, without a total break-up of life and art, of the politics of production and the politics of the product, of oneself as subjectivity and oneself as performance, of the art piece and its framing. She thus found herself at the border between visual arts and performance, the white cube and the black box, writing and theory.