Program
Bydgoszcz 9-12.10.2019

Botero8:00 PM

directed by Don Millar,
Canada, 2018 (82 min)

Botero is a poetic documentary profile of Colombian artist Fernando Botero. The film is a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the life and art of this painter and sculptor - the world's most recognized living artist.

Cursed Days9:30 PM

directed by Artem Iurchenko,
France, 2018 (77 min)

Riots begin in Kiev. The emotions among the society are reaching their heights.

Meanwhile, in a quiet studio near Majdan, discussions about art are taking place. Can an artist entirely block out politics?

Ryszard Waśko8:30 PM

exhibition

Ryszard Waśko is a multimedia artist, curator, animator of artistic life, pedagogue. He was born in 1949 in Nysa. Currently he lives and works in Łódź. His work includes films, photography, video, paintings and drawings. He studied at the Faculty of Cinematography and TV Production of National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. In the 70’s he co-founded Film Form Workshop. He was also a lecturer on his alma mater in the years 1970-1983. In 1990-1992 he worked as programme director of P.S.1 Museum and Institute of Contemporary Art in New York. In 1997-1999 he was the chaired Internationale Künstler Gremium in Koln.

Grzegorz Woźniak
/ Tomasz Rodowicz9:00 PM

Adalen - dotyk nocy - performance

Grzegorz Woźniak is a poet, prose writer and playwright. He is the author of seven books of poetry and a novel entitled “Krzyk-Rozpacz. Requiem Bogu spisane przez oszalałego mnicha” (“Scream-Despair. Requiem for God written by a crazy monk”). For many years his work has been published in a monthly literary journal Lampa. Recently, his writings were also published in a monthly journal Odra and Kalejdoskop, a cultural magazine released in Łódź. His monodram “Aktorka. Sceniczny manifest awangardy” (“An actress. A scenic manifesto of avant-garde”) was distinguished in avant-garde art competition organised by Teatr Nowy in Łódź in 2017. He recently published a poetic book entitled “Pejzaż Adalen” (2019).

Tomasz Rodowicz is an actor, musician, director and pedagogue born in 1951. He studied philosophy at the Catholic Theology Academy in Warsaw. He is the co-founder of the first sociotherapy centre for young people addicted to drugs. In the years 1974-1976 he worked closely with Teatr Laboratorium in Wrocław. Fro 1977 until 2003 he participated and co-founded Ośrodek Praktyk Teatralnych in Gardzienice. He was also one of the leaders of an educational programme of Akademia Praktyk Teatralnych. In 2001 together with Maciej Rychły, he created Orkiestra Antyczna as part of the centre in Gardzienice. The project was about recreating ancient instruments and music. Two years later he released an album under the same title. In 2004 along with other actors from Gardzienice (Dorota Porowska, Elżbieta Rojek and Maciej Rychły) he founded Stowarzyszenie Teatralne CHOREA.

Adalen - dotknięcie nocy - performance (Adalen - the touch of night)

It is a theatrical and musical performance for two voices. An actor and a musicians. A scenic activity based on Grzegorz Woźniak’s metaphors inspired with the experience of night. Night - an experience of loneliness but also fragile fulfilment. Night is not only the space of a club, a nightly community, it is also a mystery of art. The night is a woman, whose face is woven from longing. Metaphors of night are created along with music. The performance will be accompanied with flute music.

10:00 PMPiotr Wyrzykowski
wspólprodukcja: Echo Ho
Temporary Nation Performance Test 1.3

Worldwide mobile performance

We! The temporary nation.
Piotr Wyrzykowski’s and Echo Ho’s project Temporary Nation is a platform for organizing group and individual performative sessions. The work draws on active participation of its audience who become its co-creators through the use of an app designed for the purposes of this performance. Once the app has been installed, particpants’ smartphones turn into light- and sound-emitting audiovisual gadgets that can be operated by their users through particular gestures or choreographies. A joint performance of un unpredictable symphony turns a group of strangers into a temporary community.

Project creators: Piotr Wyrzykowski, Echo Ho
Concept: Piotr Wyrzykowski
Choreography: Michael Maurissens
Gesture Strategies and musical composition: Echo Ho
vocals: Lopsang Gelek, Bettina Wenzel, Patricia Kuellgis, Echo Ho
recorded and mixed at KlangBureau.de by Joker Nies
mastered by Marcus Zilz
Producer, curator: Katarzyna Boratyn
Programing: KrzemDev

Temporary Nation is part of “+100” project which has been conceived by Roderick Coover, and produced and co-curated by Katarzyna Boratyn under the institutional direction of Anna Szylar at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
The project is part of the international cultural program POLSKA 100 coordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, implemented as part of the NIEPODLEGŁ Program for many years 2017-2022. It was financed from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the Multi-annual Program INDEPENDENT 2017-2022.
Partner: Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art

Welcome to the global performance!

Join other performers and co-create a unique social event. Using simple gestures you initiate and modify sounds. What you hear and see is generated by you and other performers.

Tune in! Dance on! Mix out!
This is us! The Temporary Nation.

Piotr Wyrzykowski was born in Gdańsk in 1968. He lives and works in Kiev and Gdańsk. He started as a performer in the early 1990s. In his artistic activities he uses films, video performances, Internet, installations and video projections set in public spaces. At the beginning he studied interior decoration (1989-1991) and then painting (1991-1995) at the Fine Arts Academy in Gdańsk. He was also a student in professor Witosław Czerwonka's Pracownia Intermedialna. He's a club VJ (performing under the name Peter Style). In the 1990s he took an active part in the Gdańsk artistic milieu. Since 1990, for three years, he had formed a performance duo Ziemia Mindel Würm with Marek Rogulski. They conducted actions similar to magical rituals and mystery plays that lasted many hours. Their actions were complemented by sculptures, fire and music. Around the same time Wyrzykowski started to make films, which connected elements of media analysis and documentary values. Wyrzykowski's art has been quickly dominated by new technologies and his interest in their impact on the perception of the human body, the phenomenon of 'telepresence', the multiplication of body in TV shows (which is also an important subject of his performances), and also the exploration and possibilities of creating the virtual world. Around 2000 Wyrzykowski started his collaboration with the Ukrainian artist Ilia Cziczkan. Among the results there was a photography cycle and a film entitled Obrońcy (2001-2002) and the film Atomic Love.

GODOT11:00 PM

concert

Godot to bydgoska grupa muzyczna działająca od 2015 roku. Zespół uformował się poprzez rozszerzenie działalności duetu Adama Kempy i Mateusza Lubiewskiego, przybiera różne formy oraz rozmiary. Warstwę muzyczną cechuje połączenie melodyjnego songwriterstwa z eksperymentalnymi środkami wyrazu – zespół swobodnie porusza się zarówno w elektronicznej alternatywie, jak i w awangardowych odsłonach muzyki gitarowej. Poprzez operowanie twórcze w klubie Mózg, grupa nasiąka tradycją muzyki improwizowanej, wykwitłej w tym miejscu. W fonograficznym katalogu grupy znajduje się płyta „Do Oraju Barwistanu” (wydana jako Kempa/Lubiewski) oraz wydany w trójmiejskim Music Is The Weapon album „Godot”. Na początku 2020 roku grupa planuje premierę nowej płyty „Undisclosed”, którą wyda label Trzy Szóstki. Płytę będzie można usłyszeć przedpremierowo podczas specjalnie przygotowywanego występu Godota na Mózg Festiwalu w październiku 2019 roku.

Adam Kempa – głos, gitara
Mateusz Lubiewski – gitary, elektronika, sound manipulations
Ago – syntetyzatory
Bartosz Wolski – bas
Kevin Górzyński - perkusja

Zoë Mc Pherson11:45 PM

concert

Zoë Mc Pherson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin whose kaleidoscopic output channels a myriad of sources and researches including Inuit culture, Hybridity, Kurdish feminism, Vodun polyrhythms and the practice of Cat's Cradle. Her most recent work 'String Figures' is an ongoing trans-global art project fusing electronic sound, ethnomusicological research, video art and choreography into a rich audiovisual tapestry that collapses worlds, histories and timeframes. Released on SVS Records with a series of films directed by Alessandra Leone, the album explores an array of dualities - traditional/contemporary, organic/electronic, historical/futuristic - with its core theme of string as one of the most ancient and playful art forms with seemingly infinite possibilities. Her kinetic AV performance occupies a singular space at the intersection between forward-thinking club music, audio-visual culture and sound art. Her DJ mixes are at the intersection between trippy field recordings and powerful percussive club music. Recent mixes include Rinse FM, Red Light Radio, the Lot Radio.

Wojciech Kowalczyk 8:00 PM

performance

Wojciech Kowalczyk comes from Bydgoszcz. He has a PhD in plastic arts. He created the following genres of performance art: ARX art, ALO art, GHNO art, PROMT art, IMIT art, NUN art, PLEN art. In his work he expresses himself mainly through performance and its various forms as well as artistic installations, object and video art. In the field of theoretical approach to art he is involved with analysis of performance and the aspect of its methodological evaluation possibilities. He is a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Artistic Association Młodzi Sztuką and Association of Artists of Other Arts. He is the initiator and curator of Bydgoski Spichlerz Sztuki Performance. For his artistic achievements he was awarded an Honorary Badge of Merit for Polish Culture.

Lenka Klodová 8:30 PM

performance

Lenka Klodová was born in 1969 in Opava, Czech Republic. She studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (AAAD) in Prague. Being originally a sculptor she works in different media. She prefers conceptual line of creation – photography, installation, performance, art research. Her research is focused on visual presentation of human relationships and on relation between art, human (especially women´s) sexual experience and pornography. She received Ph.D. for art research on pornographic magazine for women. In 2010 she became the head of Studio of Body design at Faculty of Fine Art at Brno University of Technology. Her favorite academical and artistic topic is now human nudity as very natural state of the body on one side and very political gesture on the other side. Recently her book Naked Situations – a guide through the main naked moments in contemporary society and catalogue of her works with nudity - was published. She is running The Festival of naked forms in Prague – an experimental platform for testing the understanding of nudity in performance art and in Humanities.

Majewski / Buhl / Żach9:00 PM

concert

RDZA is an experimental duet, which roams around the bottom of the ocean of pop culture and feeds on the remnants that are still left, filtering them through their own heads and hearts - improv, yass, jazz, punk, photo, film, spoken word, books...

The material for the first album of the band has already been recorded and the CD will be released soon. For Mózg Festival the duet is preparing a special program with Basia Żach, who creates analogue visuals.

Jarosław Majewski - double bass
Jacek Buhl - drums
Basia Żach - visuals

Arnold Dreyblatt 10:00 PM

concert

Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is a composer, performer and visual artist. He studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. Among the second generation of New York minimal composers, Dreyblatt developed a unique approach to composition and music performance. As he began his music in the late 1970's in New York, he invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques, and a system of tuning and has formed and led numerous ensembles under the title "The Orchestra of Excited Strings". In 2007, he was elected to the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). He is currently Professor for Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel.

Dreyblatt has been composing music for his own and other ensembles for over thirty-five years. Often characterized as the most rock-oriented of American minimalists, Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground fan base for his transcendental and ecstatic music with his "Orchestra of Excited Strings". The New York native studied film and video at SUNY with Woody and Steina Vasulka, and earned his masters from the Institute for Media Studies at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo. In the mid- '70s, he studied composition with Pauline Oliveros and LaMonte Young, then with Alvin Lucier while completing his masters in composition, completed in 1982. By that time, Dreyblatt had already been directing his own music ensemble, the Orchestra of Excited Strings. In 1984, he moved to Europe where, in addition to composing, he began to work in performance and the visual arts.

He has received numerous grants, stipends and commissions including the Philip Morris Art Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art and from the Irish Arts Council. Musicians and Ensembles which have performed his music include the Bang On A Can All-Stars, Pellegrini Quartet, Jim O'Rourke, Crash Ensemble, Dublin, and the American Indie-band Megafaun. Dreyblatt has been a guest composer at Amsterdam's STEIM; Berlin's Kunstlerhaus Bethanien; Music Gallery, Toronto; with the Austin New Music Ensemble, and the Great Learning Orchestra, Stockholm.

Dreyblatt has recorded for such labels as Drag City, Tzaddik, Hat Hut, Table of the Elements, Cantaloupe, Choose and Black Truffel. Dreyblatt has taught music workshops resulting in performed compositions with musicians at "The Music Gallery", Toronto; MIT Boston, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal and many others. He has performed with and without his ensemble at the Whitney Museum, New York; the Maerz Music Festival, Berlin; the Angelika Festival, Bologna; The Lab in San Francisco, Jazz House, Copenhagen and countless other festivals and concert venues in Europe and in North America.

Mats Gustafsson11:00 PM

concert

Mats Gustafsson was born 1964 in Umeå, Northern Sweden. He lives in Nickelsdorf, Austria. He is a saxophone player, improviser and composer. He performs solo artist as well as in different projects: Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Jim O´Rourke, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Yoshimi, Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark and in working groups The Thing, FIRE!, THE END, LUFT and Gush. Projects with Boots Brown, Swedish Azz and Fake (the facts), BNNT. His career includes large ensemble work with FIRE! Orchestra, Klangforum Wien and the NU – ensemble. He also co-operates with contemporary dance, theatre, art, poetry as well as projects with noise, electronica, contemporary rock and free jazz. He is a producer of international festivals and concert tours. He has his own record labels Slottet, OlofBright Editions and Blue Tower Records.

Jiří Surůvka 8:00 PM

performance

Jiří Surůvka is a graduate of the Department of Czech Language and Literature at the Philosophy Faculty of Ostrava University. Since 2003 he has been working at Ostrava University as head of the New Media studio and is a member of the Lozinski František group. His work is characterised by his typically ironic humour. Since the mid-80s he has focused on performances at which he often dresses up in symbolic costumes. He is especially known for his Policeman and Batman. However, there is an intelligible criticism of society in his paintings, objects, photographs, digital pictures and video.

Nataliia Lisova 9:00 PM

performance

Natalia Lisowa is a Ukrainian artist, art critic, works in the direction of performance, installation, land art, site-specific. She studied at the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv.

In 2018 she receive the Scholarship from Minister of Culture of Poland “Gaude Polonia” (curator Janusz Bałdyga). Her works were presented on solo and many group exhibitions in Poland and Ukraine..

Ryszard Waśko10:00 PM

performance

Ryszard Waśko is a multimedia artist, curator, animator of artistic life, pedagogue. He was born in 1949 in Nysa. Currently he lives and works in Łódź. His work includes films, photography, video, paintings and drawings. He studied at the Faculty of Cinematography and TV Production of National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. In the 70’s he co-founded Film Form Workshop. He was also a lecturer on his alma mater in the years 1970-1983. In 1990-1992 he worked as programme director of P.S.1 Museum and Institute of Contemporary Art in New York. In 1997-1999 he was the chaired Internationale Künstler Gremium in Koln.

Silver Waves10:30 PM

concert

Silver Waves are the exhilarating currents emanating from Dylan Mallett when he gets busy with his soundboard. Initially established through a desire to experiment freely with sound and narrative, the project has since grown to encompass a weapons-grade electronic music powerhouse which contorts genre limitations and club structure into emotionally charged, twisting rhythmic productions that defy expectation. With a compositional approach inspired by the methodology of electroacoustic music, the work of Silver Waves revolves around contrast and recontextualisation - Soaring melodies are coaxed out of found sounds, set against bludgeoning splinter-rhythms and roiling acousmatic noise whilst shifting tempos and stop-start dynamics invoke a fluid and distinctly tangible nature to the work. A far cry from the cold rigidity of much dance-focused electronic music, Silver Waves favours emotional communication and maximalist impact as driving forces in both his productions and high octane live shows; in which his reformatted compositions incorporate live vocals and improvised effects mangling, performatively delivered with a thunderous urgency.

Aja11:30 PM

concert / performance

Nottingham, UK based AJA plays a noise/techno with unrelenting positive/assault delivery. She gives herself to her audience, an extremely cathartic and uplifting experience for the crowd. Not for the faint-hearted, her expression grew from a place of anger but has evolved into sharing, and inclusivity for her, and a dual cleansing immersive live experience. Although her performance could be interpreted as erotic, her intent is one of a provocation focused on/exploiting feminist issues and an alternative to ‘New Sincerity’. AJA's audience tends toward the antithesis of beard scratching cis male stereotypes the noise/experimental genre is associated with, and her music draws more and more from techno forms. AJA had a record out on Opal Tapes in 2018 which featured in Quietus’ 2018 top 100 AOTY.