This year’s residency collaboration between LAZNIA CCA and W788 is connected to ‘Sense perception’ theme and it is a part of a long-term interdisciplinary project curated by Nina Czegledy. Numerous artistic, research and educational activities, including exhibitions, discussions, presentations, artistic residencies and educational workshops focus on the study of multisensory perception of the environment. In 2019, a series of artistic residencies was initiated. Invited artists began working on projects related to the senses of: touch, smell, hearing, sight and taste. The finale of the project will take place in LAZNIA CCA in Autumn of 2021. Two other artists that have participated in this year’s residency edition in W788 are: Krystyna Jędrzejewska-Szmek and Pamela Leończyk.
Krzysztof Topolski’s notes on the residency in W788:
My residency in Kozielec was a very inspiring and fruitful time. I immediately noticed that it's a very quiet place, compared to the city's audiosphere. I started to listeng. There is no urban, traffic noise, based on low frequencies. The acoustic space is clearer. More hi-fi. I had a lot of time to focus on my thoughts and to be on my own. I ate apples from the tree, observed the river and swam in the pool. I was mainly conducting field recordings. I recorded in the meadows by the Vistula River and collected underwater sounds with a hydrophone. In the sunny waters of the river banks, full of vegetation, someone or something makes fascinating micro-sounds all the time. I was mainly interested in the sounds of nature. Sometimes the mechanical sounds of civilization could be heard from the distance. The acoustic landscape was vast and complete.
I also spent a lot of time on drumming exercises and practice, perfecting my snare drum technique. During the residency, a video recording of me playing the snare drum in the meadow and on the riverside beach was made. Field recordings, together with the snare drum were used to create the composition of the concert at the end of the residency.
I am very happy about all the meetings that happened during the residency.