Warszawskie Studio Eksperymentu

The cura­tor of the sec­ond instal­ment of Warsza­wskie Stu­dio Ekspery­men­tu is Adam Radź, who has invit­ed Rie Naka­ji­ma and Gra­ham Lam­bkin to collaborate.

A sit­u­a­tion­al, site-spe­cif­ic approach to sound that address­es space and cir­cum­stance. The invit­ed guests are British mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary artist Gra­ham Lam­bkin and Japan­ese sculp­tor Rie Naka­ji­ma, who com­bines archi­tec­ture and sound. Both artists in their prac­tice main­tain an open­ness to chance and the influ­ence of third par­ties, where­by the cre­at­ed sound sit­u­a­tion retains its organ­ic, human coef­fi­cient; the nat­u­ral­ness of occur­rence. The pre­sent­ed work is not a cold, staged gallery or con­cert prod­uct but a liv­ing, unpre­dictable sound sit­u­a­tion in which spa­tial inter­ven­tions and the sounds of third par­ties do not exclude it but enrich it. In his musi­cal prac­tice Gra­ham Lam­bkin uses trans­for­ma­tive exper­i­ments on piano and oth­er acoustic instru­ments, as well as elec­troa­coustic sound col­lages drawn from field record­ings, dia­logues and the nois­es of every­day life. All of this togeth­er cre­ates a cohe­sive and extra­or­di­nar­i­ly inti­mate, even haunt­ed, son­ic space. Rie Naka­ji­ma, in her instal­la­tions and per­for­mances, cor­re­sponds with and responds to the phys­i­cal­i­ty of a space, using a com­bi­na­tion of ran­dom­ly found objects and mech­a­nised devices. Both of these acts will focus on the acoustics of the space, reduc­ing it to a sen­sa­tion of an excep­tion­al­ly phys­i­cal, pecu­liar con­fronta­tion with sound, while at the same time main­tain­ing an overt­ly non-tech­nol­o­gy-abus­ing, human per­spec­tive on the cre­ative process.

The Warsza­wskie Stu­dio Ekspery­men­tu project is car­ried out by MÓZG FOUNDATION in part­ner­ship with Fun­dac­ja “Sfera Har­monii” from the finan­cial resources of the City of War­saw. The project con­sists of cre­at­ing and run­ning a series of reg­u­lar events across the city, whose pri­ma­ry aim is to build a plat­form for inno­v­a­tive and uncom­pro­mis­ing cre­ative activ­i­ty, inde­pen­dent of finan­cial and mar­ket con­di­tions. With­in the project, sound/music activ­i­ties with no styl­is­tic restric­tions will take place, as well as inter­dis­ci­pli­nary activ­i­ties in which sound plays a key role. This year’s, inau­gur­al, Warsza­wskie Stu­dio Ekspery­men­tu (WSE) will take place in the recent­ly estab­lished Hash­tag Lab space at ul. Bars­ka 29. The WSE pro­gramme has been con­struct­ed as fol­lows: the pro­jec­t’s orig­i­na­tor, Sławek Jan­ic­ki, invit­ed four cura­tors to col­lab­o­rate: Anna Jędrze­jew­s­ka, Marek Chołoniews­ki, Adam Radź and Qba Jan­ic­ki. The cura­tors build 4 two-day events to which they invite local and inter­na­tion­al artists. Under the cura­tor’s guid­ance, the artists cre­ate a new, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary work. The artists’ process is doc­u­ment­ed audio­vi­su­al­ly; after each gath­er­ing a film is pro­duced pre­sent­ing the artists and show­ing the cre­ative process. On the sec­ond day of each part of the project, there is a pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tion of the com­plet­ed work.

The Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of Warsaw.

Tickets

30 PLN