Voyager's Record
(2018)
author(s): Paulina Brelińska
published in: Research Catalogue
Point of departure.
The exhibition "The Voyager's Record" refers to traveling as such a form of mobility, which results from the
internal need to see inaccessible, undiscovered, lost and mysterious places. Its title refers to the name of two
gold-plated disks - The Voyager Golden Record - which was placed in the 1970s on board of spacecraft
launched as part of the Voyager program. There were some specific recordings and photographs on these disks
that were supposed to show the life cycle of the human species on Earth to the extraterrestrial viewers. The
exhibition showing the latest works created by young artists figuratively refers to the untamed dreams of seeing
unknown lands and what is more the cosmos. Artists’ projects pay attention to the images and elements of
nature that interest them during their “expeditions” (expedition is translated as “mobility organized for a specific
purpose”). Such concept situates the artist in the position of a researcher/explorer who archives/documents
reality and nature for a specific purpose. These objects are deprived of the features of the “artifact” (translated as
“incorrect element of the scientific research result”). On the contrary, they become a specific scientific record
depicting life on Earth.
During the nineteenth century, when the ideological trend called romanticism was developing, the author of the
book “COSMOS. Alexander Humboldt's physical description of the world” noticed that nature is a constant
object of the discoverer's fascination. When observing the works of contemporary artists, the aforementioned
glorification of nature seems to be still super important. Humboldt wrote: "Children's joy at the sight of the
particular figures of the countries and the closed seas, as geographical cards show us; the desire to see the
constellations of the southern sky that are not on our firmament; images of palm and Lebanon cedars in the holy
scriptures; they are all things as an example cited, and which are capable of awakening in the young soul
unreasonable desire to see distant lands.”
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The exhibition is a story about spiritual travels, as well as about feelings that accompany the search for one's
own nature. Staying in a state of suspension, properly distant from reality, very credible memorabilia arise -
telling a lot about the Earth itself. However, it is not so much its scientific portrait that is important but the
presentation of our planet from the perspective of the internal experiences of its inhabitants.
Paulina Brelińska
Reconfiguring Think Tanks as a discursive, social model in contemporary art | Residencies as places of continuity, mutuality, free thinking and independent research
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
In general, art contains in itself a revolutionary quid, as the artist - through his/her work - provides an opportunity to look at the world in a different way from that to which one was used. The art has a function of perceptive awakening and therefore of sensorial activation. This is revolutionary, because it can change your perception of life that you have had up to that time. Out of this perspective, to reconsider artist in residencies as not mere hosting institutional containers, but as laboratories of continuative production of thoughts and ideas, might also reinforce the concept that a work of art is thus the end result of a specific process – possessing specific forms and aesthetic, and that it serves no purpose except that of channelling a very specific form of energy. It’s always a sort of communicative performance. It allows man to plumb his/her own conscience and to void it, as it’s only within empty spaces that energy can unleash its creative force. For it, it is required great effort and care not just from the artist who's temporarily involved, but from the ones who run the artist in residencies themselves.
How I become a dancer
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Danka Milewska
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This research exposition is under construction
Somatic Journey or how I becoma a dancer.
Wyprawa somatyczna na wieś południowej Francji, niespełna 40 km od Zatoki Lwiej (Golfe du Lion), odbywa się pod moją skórą, w moim systemie nerwowym, w mięśniach, i czasem w stanie nawykowej amnezji, nie mającej nic wspólnego z wiekiem.
Mój system nerwowy notuje nowe odczucia wraz z nowym ruchem mojego ciała, a właściwie przypomina sobie to, co w nim doskonale zapisane – poczucie i stan równowagi, nasze prawo-od-narodzin do tańca, bez wysiłku, w swoim tempie, z uważnością i przyjemnością, a nawet błogością.
Te notatki i zapisy w ciele odbywają się porzez ćwiczenia somatyczne / somatic excursion according to Andrea Olsen. Ćwiczeniom towarzyszy somatic journal - zbiór niedokończonego lub przer(y)wanego myślenia, rysunków rozpoczętych ruchów, tekstów towarzyszących procesowi.
Zrealizowano dzięki wsparciu finansowemu miasta Bydgoszczy.