Programme:
Friday, 5 May 2023
11:00 - 14:00 Olga Micińska and Pola Sutryk: Waterhole
Workshop
Waterhole is a collaborative work based on existing local tools and materials, using the method of 'hacking' existing object functions. The object will be used during the Assembly to distribute a fermented drink.
16:00 - 16:30 Official opening
with the curators, invited artists and commissioners (Adam Mickiewicz Institute)
16:30 - 18:00 Postartistic Slam
A marathon of short presentations, manifestations and performances by each of the participating artists and curators. The session is a 'trailer' for the upcoming Assembly.
18:00 - 19:30 Alicja Czyczel: Toń
Performance
Toń is a vocal and choreographic performance by choreographer Alicja Czyczel in collaboration with composer Aleksandra Gryka, with significant participation of the Liwiec River, crickets, a cornfield, a combine harvester and a torrential storm.
19:30 - 21:30 Jaśmina Wójcik: Symphony of the Ursus Factory
Film screening
Introduction: Marianna Dobkowska
The artistic film Symphony of the Ursus Factory (2018) is the result of a five-year-long artistic and research project conducted with the community of former employees of the Ursus tractor factory, once the biggest tractor manufacturer in Europe.
Throughout the evening:
CentrumCentrum: Postartistic Congress. Sokołowsko
Screening
A poetic documentation of Konteksty. Postartistic Congress, which took place in Sokołowsko in 2021, where the world’s first specialised tuberculosis sanatorium was opened in the 19th century.
Ongoing:
- Olga Micińska: Unfinished Business, visual essay
- Centrala: meteorological tools
- Antonina Nowacka: Untitled, sound installation
- ikkibawiKrrr: various objects
- Pola Sutryk & Olga Micińska: Waterhole, installation
Saturday, 6 May, 2023
11:00 - 12:30 Centrala: Walking workshop
Centrala (Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Simone De Iacobis) – a collective that believes architecture might be a natural process, similar to the weather phenomena – takes participants for a walk combined with observing meteorological phenomena in the surroundings of the Polish Pavilion in Gwangju.
12:30 - 14:30 Pola Sutryk: Mouthful of Mouthfeels
Food sensing workshop
Pola Sutryk proposes a collaborative sensory experience based on the physiology of taste and mechanics of flavour - each dish highlights food qualities other than taste, exploring the intricate interplay between the senses. Meditative and playful exploration challenging our expectations and introducing mouthfeel as a crucial component of our total sensory experience.
Registration for workshops via QR code:
15:00-18:00 Rice Brewing Sisters Club (Hyemin Son, Soyoon Ryu): Seokkeodoongdoong 섞어둥둥
Workshop
Seokkeodoongdoong is an ongoing socio-microbial experiment of mixing, floating, caring, and situating in the field. So far the project focused on the act of making – that is, creating nuruk (Korean yeast) and seokkeottuiumbi (compost using indigenous microorganisms). In this iteration, the collective moves away from the act of making and devote more attention to using what was made, responsibly and collaboratively, bringing the issues of consumption and distribution to the table, while thinking together about how to minimize waste produced in various culinary-oriented art events.
19:00 - 20:00 Centrala: Humidum
Performative lecture
Presentation of Centrala’s methodology and tools, based on investigation of architecture as a process, with its gravity, water cycles, astronomical and weather phenomena.
20:00 - 21:00 Jeamin Cha: Sound Garden
Film screening and conversation with the artist
Moderation: Sebastian Cichocki
Presentation of the film Sound Garden (2019), which deals with the relationship between people and trees in South Korea, in relation to rapid urbanisation and the simultaneous cult of old trees that are transplanted from the countryside to big cities.
21:00-21:45 Paweł Kulczyński: Biosignatures
Sound performance
A multichannel concert-installation as a part of the ongoing Biosignatures series of compositions and performances exploring sonic boundaries or interconnections between human-made soundscapes and receding nature within the climate crisis context. Kulczyński will explore the Mudeungsan mountain area and collect field recordings for the Gwangju event and will lead a collective soundwalk the next day.
Ongoing:
- Olga Micińska: Unfinished Business, visual essay
- Centrala: meteorological tools
- Antonina Nowacka: Untitled, sound installation
- ikkibawiKrrr: various objects
- Pola Sutryk & Olga Micińska: Waterhole, installation
Sunday 7 May, 2023
12:00 - 14:00 Paweł Kulczyński: Sound walk
in Mudeungsan National Park (near Uijae Museum of Art)
Pawel Kulczyński invites the audience to explore the soundscape of Mudeungsan mountain area, as a tribute to artistic legacy of Heo Baek-ryeon, the founder of the Yeonjinhoe group and a farming school Samaehakwon.
Meeting point: bus stop: Mudeungsan National Park (Jeungsima)
16:00 - 18:00 ikkibawiKrrr (Jungwon Kim, Jieun Cho, Gyeol Ko): Seaweed Story
Presentation and film screening
Presentation of the recent works of ikkibawiKrrr collective, which is researching the seaweeds, while cultivating the land and working with local growers, focusing on the haenyeo, female divers who harvest marine products. With the participation of with the dancer/choreographer Kim Misook.
18:00 - 19:00 Alicja Rogalska, The Feast
Film screening
Introduction: Marianna Dobkowska
Alicja Rogalska's film The Feast (2022) documents a metabolic feast, a dinner ritual commemorating the end of humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels, happening sometime in the future when humans harvest and distribute surplus energy generated by their metabolisms and movements. The dinner guests consume fossil fuels and other minerals once used in energy production, such as coal, crude oil, diesel, lithium and uranium, whilst discussing the strategies employed in the past such as mourning, fighting, redistribution and decolonisation in the struggle to wean society from dirty energy and avert climate catastrophe.
19:00 - 20:00 Closing performance with all the participants of the Assembly
Ongoing:
- Olga Micińska: Unfinished Business, visual essay
- Centrala: meteorological tools
- Antonina Nowacka: Untitled, sound installation
- ikkibawiKrrr: various objects
- Pola Sutryk & Olga Micińska: Waterhole, installation
At the Podonamu Gallery:
From East to the East. Drift
Screening by Freefilmers collective, Mariupol, Ukraine
Co-curated by Asia Tsisar
Freefilmers is a collective and movement founded by video artists from Mariupol, Ukraine. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine and the occupation of Mariupol, Freefilmers adapted their artistic network to the needs of war. Thanks to the public screening of their films and donations, they accumulate funds to support underground artists, queer activists, and neurodivergent people, transport medical supplies, electronic equipment, and survival tools to the regions most affected by war.
Polish Pavilion's website: gwangjubiennalepavilion.org