PREMIERA SDK: Wojciech Kosma / Nasze pragnienia są związane

Shared read­ing, togeth­er­ness, a musi­cal and visu­al expe­ri­ence cen­tred on the poet­ry book “Nasze prag­nienia są związane”. The impro­vised gath­er­ing will be host­ed by Wojtek Kos­ma, the piano sound­scape will be in the hands of Emil­ia Gołos, and the visu­als by Basia Strzeżek.

I write poems in order to speak them aloud. That sim­pli­fies them, sharp­ens them, but also makes them more real. I can­not — espe­cial­ly pub­licly — share some­thing I don’t believe in. Bor­row­ing the say­ing “who­ev­er sings, prays twice” — I sing poems, or even let them sing them­selves. In the most beau­ti­ful songs there is almost no room for lan­guage; melody choos­es the words on its own. Nasze prag­nienia są związane is a record of my speak­ing aloud, of lis­ten­ing, of yield­ing to a voice, of sur­ren­der­ing it, and final­ly — in the very heart of a for­est, a city, a feel­ing — of qui­et, ten­der hum­ming. / Woj­ciech Kosma 

Participants:

Woj­ciech Kos­ma  read­ing and hosting

Emil­ia Gołos  piano

Basia Strzeżek visuals

Production:

texts: Woj­ciech Kosma

music: Emil­ia Gołos
pro­gramme con­cept: Diana Kraw­iec (Dobromiła Dobro)
pro­duc­tion: Diana Kraw­iec (Dobromiła Dobro), Lil­ian­na Krych
visu­al iden­ti­ty: Basia Strzeżek, @pktwidz
sound engi­neer­ing: Kos­ma Standera
organ­is­ers: Staromiejs­ki Dom Kul­tu­ry, Hash­tag Lab

The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw.
The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is POLMIC​.PL and Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio.

If you’d like to know more about the artists:

Woj­ciech Kos­ma — poet, artist and musi­cian. He cre­ates sen­si­tive worlds in which spir­i­tu­al­i­ty coex­ists with non­con­formism, inti­ma­cy with intu­ition, and rela­tion­ships with nature with anti-vio­lence dis­course. Founder of the ensem­ble Świę­to. Under the pseu­do­nym spalar­nia he gives con­certs and releas­es albums; his most recent — Paradoks — was pub­lished by the Swiss label Präsens Edi­tio­nen. He has per­formed at, among oth­er venues, Tate Mod­ern, the Komu­na Warsza­wa the­atre, Cam­den Arts Cen­tre, the Ephemera fes­ti­val and Berlin’s Galerie Moli­tor, which rep­re­sents him as a visu­al artist and performer. 

Emil­ia Gołos — born 1998 in War­saw. Impro­vis­er, pianist, syn­the­sis­er play­er, com­pos­er, based in Gdańsk. Grad­u­ate of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Ger­many. She cre­ates pri­mar­i­ly impro­vised, exper­i­men­tal and elec­tron­ic music, not only in her own projects but also for con­tem­po­rary dance per­for­mances and the­atre pro­duc­tions. She spe­cialis­es in con­tem­po­rary piano tech­niques in the con­text of impro­vi­sa­tion and is an active mem­ber of the Pol­ish and Ger­man impro­vised music scene. She co-cre­ates, among oth­ers, the ensem­bles Trop­i­cal Sol­diers in Par­adise, Trav­el Adapter, Emil­ia Gołos Quar­tet, as well as duos with Zuza Jasińs­ka and Szy­mon Wójcik. 

Basia Strzeżek — graph­ic design­er and artist based in Ams­ter­dam. Grad­u­ate of the Roy­al Acad­e­my of Art in The Hague, mem­ber of the pub­lish­ing col­lec­tive Stopka.