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VOICE
Artists whose works are presented in the exhibition:
Anna Baumgart, Wojciech Bąkowski, Miron Białoszewski
Wojciech Bruszewski, Erik Bünger, Grzegorz Drozd and Alicja Łukasiak (ZOR)
Omer Fast, Karolina Freino, Diamanda Galas, Piotr Grabowski, Susan Hiller
Mikhail Karikis, Ragnar Kjartansson, Gil Kuno, Jacek Markiewicz, Uriel Orlow Laura
Pawela, Józef Robakowski, Weronika Szczawińska, Patryk Zakrocki
Gallery 2
26 September 2014 – 4 January 2015
Curatorial Team:
Project Curator: Stach Szabłowski, Assistant Curator: Zuzanna Rutkowska
Curator of the “Białoszewski for Listening” project: Maciej Byliniak
Curators of the Film Programme: Michał Matuszewski, Grzegorz Kurek
Ujazdowski Castle Choir: Sean Palmer, Marcin Steczkowski
Graphic Design: Monika Zawadzki
Press Preview of the Exhibition: Friday, 26 September 2014 at 12.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
A preview of the exhibition for the public and guests of Warsaw Gallery Weekend: 26 - 28 September 2014
Curatorial guided tour for the public: Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 7.00 p.m.
Opening of the exhibition: Monday, 29 September 2014 at 6.00 p.m.
On view until: 4 January 2015
VOICE is an interdisciplinary artistic project devoted to the phenomenon of the human voice – an essential
tool of communication and expression, through which we articulate all kinds of messages and express
emotions. The project’s underlying idea is to listen to the artists’ voices, but also to create conditions where
the recipient will be able find their own voice, discover his corporeal nature, political power, form,
possibilities, and meanings. The aim of the exhibition and its accompanying events is to propose a collection
of experiences conducive to reflection on the expanse of space defined by voice, extending from the
articulation of discourse to unintelligible screaming.
Exhibition
The exhibition is comprised of videos as well as sound installations created by visual artists and by artists
operating on the fringe of cinema, art, and music. Voice is the theme, a basic medium of communication and
an essential means of expression. The featured works are construed as an audiovisual experience and a
narrative playing out in space through which the spectator/listener is led by various voices.
Białoszewski for Listening
“Poetry attains its full existence when it is recited,” Białoszewski argued, and for him the model of poetic
efficacy and vitality was oral poetry, melic, passed from mouth to mouth. The exhibition VOICE features a
gallery version of the project Białoszewski for Listening, which is devoted to archival recordings of the poet
as well as their contemporary interpretations and artistic remixes. Visitors will be able to hear a radio drama
realized on the basis of recordings left by the author of Chamowo, come to know original recordings of his
poems, as well as co-create the exhibition by recording their own readings of Miron Białoszewski’s texts.
Ujazdowski Castle Choir
Within the frames of Voice at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, a choir will be formed comprising of the CCA
Ujazdowski Castle’s personnel - representing various professions and specializations: from technicians and
carpenters, through office workers, to art historians and educators. The choir’s purpose will be to articulate
the “voice of the institution,” the latter being construed here as a community of its employees, both those
who function in the spotlight (e.g. the curators) and those who usually remain in the background, remaining
invisible and inaudible to the gallery goers.
Film Programme
The project VOICE is partially composed of a film programme - a series of projections combined with
lectures, panels, talks with film experts, philosophers and psychoanalysts. As a cinema, inherently
anthropocentric, we will present and addresses the problem of the human voice, both as a subject, as well
as one of the basic components of the medium itself. The program of accompanying events includes artists’
talk meetings with selected project participants (amongst others, Wojciech Bąkowski, Karolina Freino,
Mikhail Karikis, Erik Bünger) and lectures on physiology, cultural aspects of the human voice, and the art of
rhetoric.
The project has been implemented with the support of the British Council.
CCA Media Patronage: TOK FM, Elle Decoration, KMag, Label, Aktivist, Purpose, artinfo.pl, Stolica
Press materials and exhibition photograph:
ftp://cswd.home.net.pl | username: media | password: press | catalog: media | file: GLOS_VOICE
Information:
Zofia Chojnacka, tel. +48 510 160 637 | +48 22 625 05 22
Alicja Latkowska, tel. +48 500 198 274 | +48 48 22 628 12 71-73 wew. 125
CCA Press Office e-mail: [email protected]