1. Jakub Bielawski, Teatr 1?, 2016 [00:03:22]
Jakub Bielawski was born in 1975 in Gdańsk. He studies artistic education in Olsztyn at the University of Warmia and Masuria. He is a performer and painter who uses his music and words written in performance-like actions. He also creates video works. His two short films were shown on Dutch TV in the One Minutes programme. One film documenting a performance in the pattern room of the Gdańsk shipyard was presented in Chile.
His painting was shown in Olsztyn, Gdańsk, Inowrocław and Łódź. He showed his performances in Gdańsk, Olsztyn, Poznań, Ustka, Krakow, Toruń and Łódź. He made several appearances at the International Performance Art Festival Castle of Imagination. He managed three galleries: Klosz.art (at the Gdańsk shipyard), CUUD (in Gdynia-Redłowo), Peryskopy Tradycyjne (at the Gdańsk shipyard). His poems were published in the literature and cultural magazine Portret as well as in Kurier Nadbałtycki and Mać Pariadka.
2. Michał Soja, Zapis z wczoraj, 2015 [00:05:01]
Michał Soja was born in Krakow in 1994. He is still active in his native city. He mostly works with experimental animation, as well as object art and installations. He treats creative work as a cognitive process which delivers new points of view and ways of understanding reality. He is looking for his own methods of recording and observing the world. He tries to recreate the impression of the realistic and tangible nature of everyday life. He relies on drawings to convey his personal interpretation of reality, juxtaposing it with documentary materials providing an objective recording of events. He is currently a 3rd year student of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He took part in the 2016 Triennale of Drawing in Wrocław, was nominated in the Young Wolves 2015 competition in Szczecin and presented his works at two individual exhibitions.
Recording of Yesterday. Hundreds of stimuli, roles and tasks influence the chaotic image of reality forming in our mind. The work analyses our perception of a reality in disorder and attempts to translate memory into film. The author juxtaposes mechanical recordings of reality with subjective drawings, which constitute his personal recording of the events. This is a kind of video draft, deliberately careless in recording facts and events with a rather unclear meaning. The nervousness of the drawing underlines the impulsiveness and deliberate “lack of thought”. The author/narrator is hard to find: he becomes disintegrated, he neither wants nor is capable to control the stream of events.
3. Vincent Diderot, Maxiplace, 2015 [00:20:00]
4. Dariusz Kociński, Places: Baku, 2015 [00:05:14]
Dariusz Kociński was born in 1974. He graduated from the Faculty of Art of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin in 1999. Until 2010, he was associated with the Kont Gallery in Lublin (presentations at Kontperformance, Videokont, Artkontakt curated by Zbigniew Sobczuk). He works with performance art, sound installations and video art. He writes electronic and electroacoustic music, hypothetical compositions, resonance music and phonetic scores, and also creates sound sculptures. He has taken part in many festivals and exhibitions, such as: Breaking News Festival 2001, Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw; ESAV-Tour Mauran, Toulouse (France); Open City 2009 in Lublin; KODY 2010 in Lublin, WRO Alternative Now in Wrocław; Mindware 2011 in Lublin; ArtNastup 2013 in Lviv (Ukraine); ArtAttack 2014 in Tibilisi (Georgia) and Biała Gallery and BWA Gallery in Lublin, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Arsenał Gallery in Wrocław and Art Fair in Poznań.
The video Places Baku 2015 is created jointly with actors from the Lublin Dance Theatre during their stay in Baku, Azerbaijan as part of the Direction– East, Station – Dance project. The video presents a record of the encountered urban space with the figures of actors inscribed within it – a direct reaction to the space discovered while walking around the city with a camera. The structure of the narrative is based on looking for a context for the movement and body inscribed within a place and the unity of a motionless film still. Together with the original score, the video tells a peculiar story of the place, at the same time documenting the stay and presenting a subjective reaction to the culturally different urban tissue.
5. IP GROUP, or die, 2015 [00:12:58]
Identity Problem Group is an interdisciplinary art collective combining visual and performative arts, drama and architecture, video and sound art. The IP Group works with improvisation in the spirit of devised theatre, transmedia actions, performance art, multimedia installations and film. IP promotes actions situated between art, practice and theoretical discourse, opening up to various disciplines of creative thought and everyday life and focusing on the creative process manifested through methodological work, laboratory actions and artistic creation. The members of the group are Anka Herbut, Bogumił Misala, Jakub Lech, Łukasz Twarkowski and Piotr Choromański.
Anna In is the anagram of Inanna – the Sumerian goddess of love and war, protagonist of the oldest myth, in which the god dies and is resurrected, negating the division between the live and the dead. Inanna was the first. Her story formed the basis for myths, religious beliefs and literary narratives which adopted different methods of dealing with the tragedy of mortality. In the or die. performance, inspired by the myth of Inanna, the female body is inscribed in the cold, anonymous, monochrome labyrinth-like architecture. Gravitation ceases to work. Time loses its linearity. Morphemes of the basic words form new, still unrecognisable structures. The myth, like language, may act as a cushion with regard to the terror of death. It cannot be that we will no longer be there. What does it even mean to not be there?
6. Teresa Otulak, Wersja 1, 2015 [00:06:19]
Teresa Otulak was born in 1992 in Szczecinek. She is a 4th year student of Multimedia and graduate of Interior Design at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She works with experimental films, photographs, objects and installations. She is a two-time holder of the Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Szczecin and the Academic Scholarship of the Mayor of Szczecin. She won awards at the 2015 Young Wolves festival (3rd place), Szczecin European Film Festival 2014 and International Art-House Festival “ON THE TIMELINE”. Her works have been shown, i.a. at the Emmanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the National Museum in Szczecin, BWA in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Władysław Hasior Gallery in Zakopane and ”filmPOLSKA2015” festival in Berlin.
The film consists of 7 scenes showing the contemporary human condition. Subtle actions performed by the protagonist show features typical of persons from one of the versions of the future. The sound is a THX standardisation system prolonged to the entire film. The scale of the image is incredibly important during the screening: the bigger, the better. The large screen allows viewers to feel the scale difference between the protagonist and the surrounding space.