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TIFF OPEN 2020: SUNNY HILL BY BARBARA GRYKA

Multilevel system of the squered tarasses

With the banches situated on it, is a place, where several

more poetically-oriented inhabitants of the estate

wil be able to sit while listening and observing.

The estate of J. Słowackiego in Lublin is an important place. Designed in the 1960s by eminent architects - Zofia and Oskar Hansen, it was analyzed in many ways, being an inspiration for a lot of artists. The theory of Open Form was manifested in it in terms of the urban and architectural layout of the estate. As Hansen described it – this space opened one's eyes to the versatile possibilities of the community, which - as history has shown - turned out to be a utopian dream. This utopian approach became the starting point for the new project of Barbara Gryka, who - this time - decided to create the Open Form Theater. The place that is at the same time a theme and bearer of the meaning.

Łysa Góra, Łysak, Amphitheater or simply Słoneczne Wzgórze (Sunny Hill) was supposed to be a place for meetings, neighbourhood conversations and a platform for the building community. It was also supposed to be a space for those who needed art in their surroundings – as the creators and as the viewers. After all, the idea of ​​a community is based on Hansen’s theory that [...] the architectural space can live only thanks to human beings. They are its indispensable components, the inseparable actors filling the interior: they are its co-creator. This assumption - like many others - did not work out and after a few years from its inception, the Theater began to deteriorate - both naturally and as a result of various major or minor devastations. It has become a dead spot and was not needed any longer by the local society. It became an empty shell of concrete, that did not possess any meaning.

In this project, Barbara Gryka explores different threads than those raised in the award-winning and widely presented Architecture from the Inside. Moving away from the direct imaging and leaving behind for a while the work of a researcher-sociologist, she follows the concept of absent art (created by Jerzy Ludwiński) and refers to the idea of ​​community, stated by Open Form. She tries to show the impossible and de facto invisible.

The artist uses the theme of the forgotten Lublin Theater, which awakes our imagination and provokes us to focus on the passing moment. She tries to catch something that later became only a recollection or a story. Gryka forces us, with the help of the designed form - very similar to the shape of the Sunny Hill, to establish a temporary micro-relationship with a fellow viewer of this utopian, small community. This community like the Lublin one or the one dreamed by Hansen is not entirely justified and ... have to pass.

* Sunny Hill is a continuation of a larger research project by Barbara Gryka, as part of which the artist will visit other modernist housing estates in Poland.

Curator: Kama Wróbel

2-26.09.2020

organiser: TIFF Festival / TIFF Center

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exhibition photos: Jerzy Wypych

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Dark_Side of the Tour

Opening Sat Oct 28th 7-10pm (live performance 8pm)

Closing Fri Nov 17th 7-10pm (with live set)

Exhibition from Oct 29th - Nov 17th

Opening hours Thursday-Saturday​ ​4-7pm

With

Installations

Jia-Jen Lin

Scott Sinclair

Live performances

curated by Agnieszka Szablikowska of Raczej Gallery

Mikołaj Tkacz

Łukasz Trusewicz

CHCE (eng. WANT / WISH / FANCY) - Olga Dziubak & Barbara Gryka

Bad signals. Disconnected memories. Pixelated images form into nightmares and lead us to explore the dark side of our unconscious. An invitation to bifurcations inside the unknown.

Why not take an alternative sightseeing tour to find the border of the end of Knowingness and transform that path into an irreplaceable sensory experience?

Rays of light illuminate distinct complementary perspectives along a spatial Bokeh. Transparency brings lives together like seasonal souvenirs, waiting to be brought to intimacy.

Jia-Jen Lin

http://jiajenlin.info/

Jia-Jen Lin creates images of the human body and its surroundings as a reflection of our psyche. Drawing from personal experience and observations, Lin uses sculpture integrated with photography, video, and performance to portray the ongoing negotiation between our latent desires and the manipulated realities in which we find ourselves. Hybrid cultures, shifting identities, and the relationships between our physicality and psychology are subjects Lin has investigated since 2004. Her recent projects explore humanity’s experience of displacement, self-consciousness and loss and how memories change with modified experience and new events.

Jia-Jen Lin is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. Lin attended National Taiwan Normal University for a BFA in Western Painting and received her MFA in sculpture, installation, and multimedia from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has participated in artist residencies at International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York; L’Estruch, Spain; Water Mill Center, New York; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Exhibitions include Queens International 4, Queens Museum; Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, South Korea; Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei; and Manufractura, Hangar Art, Barcelona. She has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council, Sculpture Space, Franconia Sculpture Park, National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, and Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.

Scott Sinclair

http://www.halftheory.com/

Scott Sinclair is an audiovisual artist working in sound, video, performance, and installation. Using a highly interdisciplinary approach, Scott creates brutalist and humorous collages of audiovisual media incorporating elements such as computer music, cracked video art, found objects, custom-made costumes, and improvised performance. His work is often concerned with the over-stimulation of these elements to bring about states of intensified noise delirium.

As a performer, Scott is known for his highly energetic and unpredictable performances which are often equal parts brutal avant-garde and equal parts low-brow trash. His concerts have found audiences on many tours in Europe, Australia, Japan, Russia, and North America. Scott currently performs in the audiovisual groups Botborg and The Superusers, and his solo noise-karaoke project Company Fuck.

He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Mikołaj Tkacz

https://www.facebook.com/zespolWSZYSTKO/

https://vimeo.com/nikolaitkacz

Mikołaj Tkacz born in 1991 in Poznań. For years he was focusing on drawing comics, but later he started making music and experimental films. In his works he is focusing mainly on exercising narration and telling about things using abstract means of expression and humor. Poetic of his early works is well described a comic book „Nobody’s Adventures” in which the viewer goes through the empty rooms by 40 pages. In last years Mikołaj focused on musical project EVERYTHING in which he is concentrating to put everything in fact.

Now he is working on rap album called „Pro-nothing” and he is ending recording dance album „I am dancing for myself”. Moreover, he is working now on a concept of his project in which he will be making „exhibitions by chance”.

Łukasz Trusewicz

https://trusewiczlukasz.wordpress.com/

B. 1984. He graduated from the faculty of Sculpture and Performing Art on University or Arts in Poznan. Combines his sculptural practice with ephemeral potential resulting from the experience of performance art. Interested in both the role of the group and the individual spectator in the process of shaping an artistic action or object and the issues of social reception of art. Author of the projects created with the involvement of local communities - sculptures, objects, performative installations, urban interventions. In performance activities he mostly analyses the specific contexts of a chosen space. He refers to its social and urban problems or to local potential of historical memory. The artist is also a creator of cultural and social projects. He’s originator of the initiative of the Open Zone of Culture in Poznan whose aim is to create a cultural - artistic district in the Łazarz neighborhood of Poznań using the local potential of the space and cooperation with other initiatives, and in addition the city dwellers and the authorities. Author of international social sculpture project - babelproject.eu. He is also the originator and one of the curators of the Raczej Gallery & Perfex in Poznań - which presents and promotes performance art through local and international contacts. Board president of the Open Zone of Culture Foundation.

Chosen artistic activities: Iamesh Ephemeral Art Meeting, Księgarnia/Wystawa, Cracow, Poland, 2016; Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm 2016; solo show, City Art Gallery in Kalisz, Kalisz 2015; PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL MALAMUT, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2015; PERFO! , Haihara Art Centre , Tampere Finland 2015; performance Skål, Performance Art Links Stockholm , PALS Play Tag Part1, Stockholm Sweden 2015; Month of Performance Art Berlin, 2013-15, PAO Festival 2014, Oslo, Norwey 2014, Body Plasticity Live Art Exhibitio, Beijing, China 2014.

CHCE (eng. WANT / WISH / FANCY)

Olga Dziubak & Barbara Gryka

https://www.facebook.com/chcechcechce

https://chceteam.tumblr.com/

Olga Dziubak

https://olgadziubak.tumblr.com/

Barbara Gryka

https://vimeo.com/user46598732

Performance art team CHCE is founded by two female polish emerging artists. At July of 2016 Olga Dziubak and Barbara Gryka met each other in the apartment at Czerniakowska Street in Warsaw. Their friendship from high school and love for performance art is appeared. Using a thread is connected those two personalities in performance art. CHCE use new media, the aesthetics of pop culture and contemporary ways of communication. CHCE team wants to create something more than visual image. Artists are focused on critical view for communication tools and cameras in the contemporary society. Olga and Barbara mostly spend time together online. They talk about position of young artist in the art world and function of art institutions at these times. CHCE dreams of better prosper of artists in the society.

Olga Dziubak currently lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She graduated on MA in Multimedia Art in Art Academy in Szczecin and BA on Painting in University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland.

Barbara Gryka based Warsaw, Poland. She study on 2nd year on MA in New Media Art in Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw.

Performance program curated by Agnieszka Szablikowska of Raczej Gallery

Raczej Gallery

https://galeriaraczej.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/galeria.raczej

Raczej Gallery is an independent Gallery founded in 2011 in Poznan, Poland. From the beginning we’re focused on the promotion of the performance art. We mainly present the actions of young artists as well as renowned performers. Significant for us is to show the diversity of ephemeral arts. Within 6 year we presented about one hundred artists from all around the world, both in Poznan and abroad (as a part of international co-production projects.) We collaborated among others with Month of Performance Art in Berlin, Supermarket Independent Art Fairs in Stockholm, Performance Art Oslo, Performance Art Stockholm and a lot of other organizations. We organize performances, workshops, talks, festivals, concerts etc.

From 2014 Gallery have a new bigger space (Perfex) in Poznan and from 2016 has been developing its residency program by inviting artists to live in gallery’s new residency space and to create projects based on longer stays. Curators and founders of the Gallery (Agnieszka Szablikowska – Trusewicz & Łukasz Trusewicz) are also creators of ‘Open zone of the Culture” in Lazarus district in Poznan – an initiative focused on collaboration of different organizations in aim to create a cultural district.

Agnieszka Szablikowska - Trusewicz

Graduated from the Poznan University of Art (Specialty: Criticism and Art Promotion). She is a co-founder, coordinator and curator at the Raczej Gallery in Poznan. She also organized projects that resulted in Poznan new performance space – Perfex which is now a space of gallery Raczej events. Activities of Raczej Gallery are also connected to the local context with Artists in Residency program - invited artists live and create in urban areas of Łazarz district. She co-curated international projects as a part of Month of Performance Art 2014-2015 in Berlin, Performance Art Oslo Festival 2014, Performance Art Lin Stockholm in Fylkingen, Stockholm. She is one of the initiators and main coordinator of the Open Zone of Culture in Poznan as well the Vice President of the Open Zone of Culture Foundation. From 2015 she is involved in developing Pireus – Incubator of Culture in Poznan created as part of cross-sectoral cooperation, where currently she works as a coordinator of events.

She is interested in performance art especially in the context of public space and in revitalization through cultural activities especially created in collaboration with local communities.

https://www.facebook.com/galeria.raczej

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Project sponsored by the city of Poznan.

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Seestrasse 49, 13347 Berlin-Wedding

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Barbara Gryka: W sztuce szukam ludzi

http://dlvr.it/R7djlH

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One-Off Moving Image Festival 2018

This first edition of One-Off Moving Image Festival took place 19 - 25 February 2018! We're showing 1 second movies together with 60 seconds movies in public, urban space in collaboration with 60Seconds Festival in Copenhagen (DK). All our movies were screened in the metro station Angel Guimerá in Valencia (ES) together with a selection of 60 seconds movies. A selection of our movies was shown in parallel in Copenhagen. We're also screening our movies here on the net during the festival. The theme for the 2018 festival is "HOME IS...". Keywords: Habitat, safety, homesick, refuge, the right to a home, migration, homeless, retreat, the making of a home, precarity, technology-induced precarity, material or psychological welfare or lack of it. The festival awarded two selected movies a symbolic prize: a jury award of 1500 NOK, and an audience award of 800 NOK. The winner of the jury award: Zoha Mushtaq - Home is where you grow The winner of the audience award: Karl Heinz Jeron - home Congratulations! Participants in the festival A. P. Vague, Alan Sondheim, Ana Buigues, Anja Malec, Anton Logi Ólafsson, Bach Nguyen, Barbara Gryka, Barry Anderson, Bransha Gautier, Chad Erpelding and Dana Sperry, christine malnes mathisen, Diego Bernaschina, dominik podsiadly, Edoardo Gaudieri (det0une), Enric Socias, Eylul Dogruel, Francisco Acuña, Ieva Saudargaite Douaihi, Jenny Melissen, Jing Zhou, Joseph Moore, Jurgen Trautwein, Karl Heinz Jeron, Khalil Charif, Konstantina Mavridou, Lin Li, Malgorzata Zurada, Marius Martinussen, Mathieu Hendrickx, max glader, Megan Dieudonné, Mercer MacWilliam Hughes, Michail Rybakov, Muriel Montini, nigel roberts Silvia Nonnenmacher, Olga Lukyanova, Patrick Lichty, Paul Wiegerinck, Rebecca Kadi, Rina Beldo, ronnie s, Sandra Reyes Melnick, Sara Koppel, Siegmar Fricke, Sissel Berntsen, Thomas Grok, Timo Kahlen, Victor Maria Lima, Pawel Wocial & Kamila Tuszynska, Zoha Mushtaq From 60Secs Festival: Coenie Teichert, Farshad Qaffari, Jonas Kisielius, Leonardo Solaas, Lindon Shimizu, Mahnoor Mushtaq, Michael Everard, Michel Platnic, Mila Panic, Selma Selman and Sasha Tatic, Mohammad Farajzadeh, Nina Maria Kleivan and Pernelle Maegaard, Rafael Triana, Riad Arfin, Saman Hosseinpuor, Samuel Harding and Johan Fryd, Sanglim Han, Tobias Juhl Nielsen About The One-Off Moving Image Festival is organized and curated by Noemata. The festival is collaborating with 60Seconds Festival for call, theme, movies and screenings, and both festivals run in parallel 19 - 25 February (Monday-Sunday) 2018. We share the works so the screenings are a mix of 1 minute and 1 second movies. One-Off Festival uses virtual screenings via routers and wireless technology while 60Secs do physical screenings using projectors. We both use public, urban settings as the exhibition space. All the movies are screened in the metro station Angel Guimerá in Valencia (ES) using piratebox routers (TP-LINK MR3020). The station is a traffic hub where we're covering 5 metro lines in total. The festival is collaborating with Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) and their Linea 0 programme for social responsibility. The documentation of the festival is at http://noemata.net/one-off/docu/. A selection of the movies is shown in parallel at 60Seconds Festival in Copenhagen (DK). We're also showing a selection of their 60 seconds movies. In addition we're screening all our movies here on the net during the festival. One-Off is an offspring of the Leap Second Festival, an x-ennale lasting 1 second (three former editions 2012, 2015, 2016/2017). Since the leap seconds are inserted into clock-time irregularly we wanted in addition to have a yearly festival of 1 second movies, also to be able to run in parallel with 60Secs festival. 60Secs on their side has more than ten years of experience in organizing screenings of short movies in public (streets, walls, metro). All 1-second movies will be included in the next Leap Second Festival. In 2017 Leap Second Festival and 60Secs collaborated on 6 screenings in Europe consisting of movies from both, with the practise of mixing short and ultra-short movies. More info. This in turn lead up to the establishment of the One-Off festival. We're running it without funds for the moment, in line with the theme of home, technology, precarity. Jury for the One-Off Moving Image Festival 2018: Daniela Arriado, Bjørn Magnhildøen, Ana Buigues. Mentions - https://www.ondamusicalradio.com/2018/02/21/la-estacion-de-angel-guimera-de-metrovalencia-ofrece-conexion-wifi-para-acceder-a-los-contenidos-de-one-off-moving-image-festival-2018/ - http://www.indi.gva.es/inicio/area_de_prensa/not_detalle_area_prensa?id=737564 - http://www.spain-eventos.es/eventos-historia/1562450/one-off-moving-image-festival-2018 - https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/dr2-dagen/dr2-dagen-dr2/dr2-dagen-2018-02-21#!/01:05:35 - From 60Seconds Festival, live coverage from the Danish broadcasting DR2 channel, also with some of the One-Off festival films. --- Collaboration partners http://dlvr.it/QKZWVM

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Dark_Side of the Tour

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Seestrasse 49, 13347 Berlin

Opening: Saturday Oct 28th 7-10 pm

Closing: November 11th 7-10 pm (with live set)

Exhibition from October 29th - November 17th

Opening hours Thursday-Saturday​ ​4-7pm

Installations:

Jia-Jen Lin

Scott Sinclair

Live performances:

curated by Agnieszka Szablikowska of Raczej Gallery

Mikołaj Tkacz

Łukasz Trusewicz

CHCE - Olga Dziubak & Barbara Gryka

Exploring the dark side of our subconscious through misconnected memories and bad signals that produce pixelated tunes in the form of nightmares leads the way to bifurcations into unknownness. Why not take an alternative sightseeing tour to merge the border of the individuals and transform the path into an irreplaceable sensory experience?

Rays of lights follow complementary perspectives distinctly along a spatial Bokeh around , transparency connects lives that intervene around as encounters of seasonal souvenirs and waiting to be brought to intimacy.

https://www.facebook.com/events/725272194331401 

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Wyabstrahowane kolekcje codzienności - wideo od Barbary Gryki

Barbara Gryka w swoich pracach wideo stara się skonstruować nową relację z otoczeniem i zastanymi obiektami z kolekcji rodzinnego domu, któremu przygląda się przez soczewkę kamery. Artystka zamyka zarejestrowane obrazy w skali szarości, której zestaw wyprowadza percepcję widza poza pole oczywistych referencji. Struktury obiektów stają się fluidalne, a szarość paradoksalnie daje nowe życie cichej codzienność w zmienionej saturacji znaczeń. Interwencja Gryki jest działaniem zapętlenia, spojrzeniem na dom z perspektywy ziemi, detalu, paradoksu zbieractwa, wyrysowaniem ścieżki od jednego do kolejnego punktu działania. Wideo staje się zapisem wizji lokalnej przefiltrowanej przez ruch i związek z ciałem, przez aspekt organicznego obcowania z obiektem, a nawet przez daną porą roku i temperaturę, w której „dzieją się” obrazy.

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Barbara Gryka & Olga Dziubak