Wy/twórczość. Praktyki artystyczne w performansie instytucjonalnym na przykładzie powstawania spektaklu „Malina”

The aim of this article is to analyse the process of creation of the Malina (Raspberry) project (2018) through the prism of the assumptions of the Placówka (Outpost) programme of the Theatre Institute in Warsaw, which had a nurturing and disciplinary function towards the selected project. Starting from the definition of the relation between the group of female artists and the institution as subjects meeting in a moment of ‘career coupling’, the author reflects on how both parties interpreted the implementation of the idea of a long-term, laboratory-based creative process, including the consent to suffering a ‘productive failure’. The main body of the article revolves around establishing the reasons and consequences of the residents’ failure to exercise their right to create an open, experimental form of the work-in-progress kind. Supported by the knowledge gathered during the rehearsals for the performance and the interviews conducted, the author indicates how economic and communicative difficulties translated into decisions regarding the organisation of the theatrical process.