Rust of Reverence: koncert i debata „Dzisiejsza kultura białoruska”

The title Rust of Rev­er­ence (lit­er­al­ly “the rust of rev­er­ence” or “the ero­sion of glo­ry”) alludes to the idea of the ero­sion of val­ues, their aban­don­ment and deval­u­a­tion through time, shift­ing pri­or­i­ties and oth­er circumstances.

Rust of Rev­er­ence is a work for ensem­ble, live elec­tron­ics and video.

The work is deeply root­ed in the tra­di­tion of Belaru­sian cul­ture — the home­land of the com­pos­er, Andriej Evdoki­mov. In the musi­cal nar­ra­tive lay­er the com­po­si­tion refers to the rich­ness of that cul­ture, while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly point­ing to its fragili­ty in the dif­fi­cult socio-polit­i­cal real­i­ty. It is a reflec­tion on the sur­vival of cul­ture and tra­di­tion in a world that often forces them to hide or rad­i­cal­ly transform.

In the elec­tron­ic lay­er, orig­i­nal Belaru­sian folk songs and instru­men­tal music have been used, sub­ject­ed to intense dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tions that pre­serve sub­tle echoes of the orig­i­nal mate­r­i­al while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly lend­ing it a dis­turb­ing, inhu­man qual­i­ty. The video lay­er intro­duces visu­al ref­er­ences to the theme of the ero­sion of cul­tur­al mem­o­ry and the sig­nif­i­cance of roots. The com­po­si­tion con­sists of 13 parts, last­ing approx­i­mate­ly 55 minutes.

Rust of Rev­er­ence is not only a musi­cal nar­ra­tive, but also an artis­tic med­i­ta­tion on mem­o­ry, loss and the attempt to find new mean­ing in a dis­tort­ed heritage.

Dur­ing the event there will be a world pre­miere of Andriej Evdoki­mov’s com­po­si­tion Rust of Rev­er­ence, as well as a dis­cus­sion pan­el on the sit­u­a­tion of Belaru­sian artists. With the par­tic­i­pa­tion of cre­ators from Belarus and Wojtek Zrałek-Kos­sakows­ki from Kry­ty­ka Poli­ty­cz­na, dur­ing the pan­el we will dis­cuss the sit­u­a­tion of Belaru­sian cul­ture in recent years.

Par­tic­i­pants in the discussion:

Olga Mzhel­skaya — visu­al arts curator

Olia Aniska — cul­tur­al man­ag­er, inde­pen­dent researcher

Pro­gram:

Andriej Evdoki­mov Rust of Reverence*

*world pre­miere

Per­form­ers:

Ania Kar­pow­icz flute­Gabriela Graboń viola*Dominik Pło­cińs­ki cel­loAn­driej Evdoki­mov live elec­tron­ic­sPali­na Kamarowa video

Adam Eljasińs­ki clarinet

*Akademia Pro

Pro­duc­tion:

Cura­tor: Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk Pro­duc­tion: Mar­ta Piórkowskav­i­su­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Œdak­Sound engi­neer­ing: Andriej Evdoki­mov, Woj­ciech Błażejczyk

More about the artists/works:

Andrew Evdoki­mov – musi­cian, com­pos­er, music pro­duc­er and sound engi­neer born in Belarus. Cur­rent­ly lives in War­saw. He is a grad­u­ate of the Feliks Nowowiejs­ki Music Acad­e­my in Byd­goszcz (the­atre and film music com­po­si­tion) and the Acad­e­my of Jour­nal­ism and Sound Pro­duc­tion in War­saw (sound engi­neer­ing). In recent years he most fre­quent­ly works on the­atre projects as com­pos­er and sound engi­neer. In his works he uses a com­bi­na­tion of var­i­ous tech­niques and styles, and his music is often char­ac­ter­ized by a dark mood and themes con­nect­ed to the tragedy of human exis­tence in the world.

Pali­na Kamaro­va – mul­ti­me­dia artist born in Belarus, she is a grad­u­ate of the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in the Fac­ul­ty of Media Art. She cur­rent­ly lives and cre­ates in War­saw. In her works she uses pho­tog­ra­phy, pho­togram­me­try, point clouds and dig­i­tal scans. Cre­ator of video works, pho­tographs, VR expe­ri­ences with ele­ments of vol­u­met­ric film. In her projects she address­es the prob­lems of iden­ti­ty, oppres­sion, trau­ma and spaces of memory.

The project was real­ized with­in the frame­work of the Gaude Polo­nia Schol­ar­ship Pro­gramme of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Heritage.

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.

Co-orga­niz­ers of the event are Jas­na 10, the Com­mu­ni­ty Cul­tur­al Insti­tu­tion of Kry­ty­ka Polityczna.

Tickets

40 PLN