AKA Herring Park | Simone Lucas Kłodawa
Residency presentation
Wednesday June 11th, 2025
From 6 to 9 pm
At Ada X, 4001 rue Berri, # 201 and on zoom [contact info@ada-x.org to register for the zoom link]
> This event is mask-mandatory, free and open to all
> Snacks and drinks will be served
Join Simone Lucas Kłodawa a presentation on their work and research conducted during her residency at Ada X from April 8 to June 6 2025. AKA Herring Park invites you to journey with them through a site of diasporic historical memory. Follow a trail of scents into a space that is both real and imagined. With a discussion moderated by Johnny Forever Nawracaj, this residency presentation is an invitation to experience work-in-progress video projections, soundscapes, smell sculptures, and found artefacts.
Johnny Forever Nawracaj is a nonbinary Polish-born performance and media artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Drawing on personal experiences of labour and loss, their practice builds metaphors around the precarity of social structures. Combining queer femme tropes with construction materials, they explore the relationship between the labouring body and the built environment. They often collaborate with their partner, sound artist Gambletron, merging FM radio transmission with digital media to conjure surreal soundscapes, installations and performances. Their latest work together explores the duo’s respective Ashkenazi Jewish and Slavic ancestral links to Eastern Europe through an explicitly anti-zionist, anti-fascist lens. Forever’s work emerges from a dedication to research practice. They hold an MA in art history from Concordia University and an MFA from USC Roski School of Art and Design.