Projects—Master PPS Performing Public Space

Jun 28

Jun 28 INVISIBLE RELATIONS OF MATTER ON DESIRE PATHS

CLASS 2021/22

What if the small pieces of colorful plastic under your feet start to bloom? What if your well-known path decides to walk away and disappear with their desire? What would you feel? Can you imagine that?

In this research project I try to imagine and embody speculative relations between human traces and artifacts on desire paths in public space by creating counter-narratives to the existing manipulated images created by the capitalistic market. The relational aesthetics beyond humans are focused on highlighting the less noticed, other-than-human beings and non-customized traces. This vulnerability exposes antagonism and brings to the discussion unheard voices of peripheries. This research presents a temporary, imaginary social space, built up by narratives of matter friction, dirt and lost pieces of objects. It is a process of elaboration on other-than-human relationships and creation of heterotopic dimensions, which is the possible future of new common grounds. All these layers become poetic and political in new aesthetics. The research investigates interdisciplinary methods including subjective walks, assemblages, texts, audio-storytelling, interventions and participatory performance. In my current practice I focus on dialog with traces in clay and poetic language. Driven by processes of fieldwork and discovering wisdom inherent in different bodies, I hope to witness a future of self-organized spaces and practicing communication between static and vibrant matter.

SPECIAL THANKS

Thanks to Tomas de Loo, my peers and coach David Limaverde for the consistently supportive feedback and inspiring exchanges.

Kamila WOLSZCZAK

Kamila Wolszczak is a Netherlands-based Polish visual artist and researcher. She is a matter mediator, counter-narratives inventor with strong communication skills and a thirst for knowledge. She creates performance, text and installation projects based on the relations between self-organized public side space and artifacts and human traces. She enjoys collaborative projects and co-creation, specifically the blending of facts with speculation. As a mediator she holds a wide professional skill set, and is sensitive towards different components of artistic processes and productions. She accepts change as inevitable and tries to find a way to communicate with that and believes in the power of matter and communities, creativity as a magic tool for real shifts in society. Kamila studied at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin (Painting BA), the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław (Art Mediation MA) and at the Fontys University (PMA Performing Public Space)