Tomasz Bazan
The Bio-Object is a vehicle of artistic actions. The project is an interdisciplinary collage of architecture, visual arts, performance art, multimedia and theatre
The object designed by Robert Kuśmirowski invites viewers to the experience various works by young contemporary Polish artists. As the space inside bio-object fits an audience of about 60 seats, the showings are rather intimate and allow a close contact with the art.
The programme is comprised of an audiovisual performance by Paweł Korbus and Połynko, a showing of butoh theatre by Teatr Maat, a dance theatre piece by Wojciech Kaproń and a performance by Dominik Złotkowski.
Featured performances/installations/actions:
"Closer" - a performance by Wojciech Kaproń
A solo dance theatre performance, the showing is very much a visual action, based on physicality and the craft of contemporary dance. The performance doesn't tell any story and emphasises the esthetic dimension of working with the body.
The artist comments:
I got lost my little brother. I love you, I hate you, my little brother. Standing over the edge of a precipice I imagine I, destinity I. Loneliness, I. Paralysed with demagogy, I. Lost in space and time, I. Crushed with the rock of hate and terror, I. Torn from the womb of innocence, I. Searching for relief, I. Falling down, IIIIIII.
Performance by Dominik Złotkowski
The action takes on a different form each time, depending on the city. The artist addresses the history and architecture of each capital with a set of props and multimedia. Each performance is thus unique and largely improvisation-based.
"ORLANDO.1"
"Tak więc siedział Orlando i czytał - człowiek nagi" /"Thus sat Orlando and read – a naked man" - concept and performance by Tomasz Bazan
A situtation of transition, a moment when the air still wavers after a transformation. A metamorphosis occurs in the least expected moment, with no huge signs or references – it happens here and now, its very instant is not easy to capture. Waiting stays on a border, never actually leaving it. NOW. Orlando became a woman.
The project "Orlando" is inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel, Homer's Odyssey and the novel "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosiński. The endevour is part of a long-term project, created in cooperation between actor Jacek Poniedziałek and dancer and choreographerTomasz Bazan. The artists search for new means of expressing a synthesis between dramatic theatre and physical dance theatre. Three projects will make up a final showing with the participation of Tomasz Bazan and Jacek Poniedziałek, scheduled to take place in October 2012: a film featuring Jacek Poniedziałek, Monika Kotecka,Patrycja Płanik, the "Orlando.1" performance by Tomasz Bazan, and a documentary film "Orlando.Doc"
Audiovisual show and concert peformed by Korbus and Połynko
A multimedia show employing the newest technologies. A idyllic image of country life is layered with multimedia effects that astonish the human eye..
Korbus and Połynko on their project:
Noises, fusions, confusions. Images of dreams and images of awakening. How are you? – I don't know. A post-modern syncretic world. Poetry in relation to separating the soul from the body, the mind from emotions, the sacred from the profane. From a man for a man, live. Images, words, music. A man inside of the act of art.
Minsk was the first stop on the "Bio-object" tour this fall. Future shows take place in:
Berlin - 28th of September
Paris - 30th of September
Madrid - 2nd of October
Brussels - 6th of October
London - 8th of October
Programme in Minsk 25.09.2011:
6 – 7 p.m. audiovisual show and concert performed by Korbus andPołynko
7 – 7.30 p.m. "ORLANDO.1" of Teatr Maat, concept and performance by Tomasz Bazan
7.30 – 8 p.m. "closer" performance of Lubelski Teatr Tańca(Lublin Dance Theatre), dir. Wojciech Kaproń
8 – 8.30 p.m. Performance by Dominik Złotkowski
9 p.m. Meeting with artists
Date: 25th of September, 2011
Venue: Independence Boulevard, the courtyard of the State University in Minsk. For details on the Belarusian venue, see: maps.interfax.by
Organised by: Centrum Kultury in Lublin
Project cofinanced by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
Source: Adam Mickiewicz Institute