Kamila Elżbieta Wolszczak portfolio

PORTFOLIO Kamila Elżbieta Wolszczak

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www.kamilawolszczak.wordpress.com kamila.wolszczak@gmail.com +48 505668340

BIO Kamila Elżbieta Wolszczak born April 7, 1988, in Chełm, Poland.

I have a BFA degree in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maria CurieSklodowska University in Lublin, Poland and an MFA degree Art Mediation, specialization: art mediayion and performance. Department of Sculpture and Painting, second-cycle programs, the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. I also have performance coure from Valencia, from Bartolome Ferrando. After my Fine Art studies I stayed in the city Wrocław where I am currently living and working. I create projects about relations between a viewer, artist and space by performance art, installations and drawing. The main topics of my projects are time, motion, relations and process. I have also organized collective curatorial exhibitions in the independent spaces – Universal Self-Supporting Exhibitions. Me and Dominika Borkowska are running Paraperformance collective. I am interested in the relation between an artist and the audience in sitespecific situations. I am working in the contemporary performing arts worldwide of interdisciplinary live art forms and new media, since 2012.

Mine the most important toutors are: Adina Baron, Bartolomé Ferrando, Janusz Bałdyga, Milan Kohout, Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Alastair Maclennan, Zierle & Carter, Francesco Kiais.

I realisend my projects during: Elka, storytelling performance in Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw, (PL) 2017, Context Festival of Efemeric Art w Sokołowsko (PL) 2017, DROUGHT, Galeria Entropia Wrocław (PL) 2017, LUHOvaný Vincent, (CZ) 2017, CELL63 artgallery in Neukölln (DE) 2017, Warsaw International Performance Art Weekend, Warsaw (PL) 2016, Kunstsommer, Wiesbaden (DE) 2016, Paraperformance, BWA Wrocław/Warsaw (PL) 2016,Young Poland, Wrocław (PL) 2016, Track record, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka (PL) 2015, Narcissus, Miami New Media Festival, Miami (USA) 2015, Built-up, Media Art Biennale, Wrocław (PL) 2015, Relations, Muza space for art, Jaffa Tel Aviv (ISR) 2014, Passing, Galeria H2O, Barcelona (ES) 2013, Layers/ Spain/Portugal/Poland, 2012-2013 You can find documentation here: www.kamilawolszczak.wordpress.com/performance/ www.vimeo.com/kamilaelzbieta My on going projects are: Draft system by Key to performance, Paraperformance collective in WRO Art Center Wrocław (2017, November), Silent meters, duo performance with Olivia Schellander in AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna (2018, January), Entropia 3.0 performance for 30. birthday of Entropia Gallery in Wrocław (2018, February), Artist in Residence in A.I.R Frisland, Leeuwarden (2018, June)

Documentation of previous work Paraperformance collective, since 2014, Wrocław, PL. The mission of collective Paraperformance in their work connected with different creative areas and expressions is to blur the borders between the artistic categories e.g. visual art, theatre and dance.

Above all stands the human being with its creative attitude as creator and audience. This is why the two artists want to create a dialogue with the audience and present performance as a medium in which everything is possible, without unnecessary categorizing and judging.

This started the cycle of fusions with audience titled 'Key to performance' in which we perform together with the participants and balance between experimental workshops and creating a new artistic type of live art. Sometimes the new and slightly experimental actions are being discriminated in the world of visual arts and in many artistic environments, that's why collective Paraperformance focusses on these new forms of live art and works with the audience to increase our self-awareness in the areas of live art and mixing different ways of expression. Key to performance is an open platform for people which are not daily into art, which would like to know different creative views and want to get rid of the stereotype art classifications and qualification to perform. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNIFj3pRhvGutR5iEyqYLw

* Drought, 2017, Entropii Gallery, Wrocław, PL. During these performances I experiment with reality and imagination. I am using video projections, sticky tape to draw with, poetry about dust, white clothes as screen. http://www.entropia.art.pl/view_news.php?id=466 https://vimeo.com/234321231

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Under pressure, performance, 2016, WIPAW Warsaw, PL. In our never-ending hurry and confusion, we are more vulnerable and influenced by pressure which paralyzes our body and mind. My work refers directly to the container of knowledge and pressure which is a person's head. I try to purify myself from the pressure which has accumulated in these containers. For this I use vinegar containing 6% acetic acid used in households for preserving or cleaning and Biblically meaning sweat and tears. This symbolism will be used in washing heads in the shape of balloons, but this idea of purifying pressure and killing bacteria will evolve and develop during the performance. For the mechanic metaphor of compression and expansion will be used fully absorbed and squeezed-out sponges and full and empty balloons. https://kamilawolszczak.wordpress.com/wipaw/

* Suwaczek gallery, 2016, Wrocław, PL. A gallery curated by children from an old urban district Przedmieście Oławskie in the center of Wrocław. This district is awaiting revitalization, but local kids already start revitalization by transforming an old cellar window into an exposition place. Now this city district has the youngest and the smallest art gallery in voivodeship Lower Silesia. https://kamilawolszczak.wordpress.com/suwaczek/ https://vimeo.com/193338338

* Track record, video-installation, 2015, Art Centre for Creative Activities in Ustka, PL Track Record was a seven-day journey along the coast of the Baltic Sea that begun in Świnoujście and ended in Ustka (PL). The route was circa 200 kilometers long, the distance was covered on foot in February 2015. The process was recorded every day on the reel of adhesive tape with a length of about 50 meters (tape width 45 mm) by unwinding a reel tape, processing it on the ground and winding it back onto another empty one. The project locates itself on the border of installation, performance and video, and relates to various ways of recording: the analog (sand and micro-particles in the air) versus the digital (the GoPro recording). The project serves as a tribute to nature and a gesture towards the historical work of Tadeusz Kantor, Panoramic Sea Happening (Łazy, Osieki, 1967); it is the author of the record that becomes the machine for recording, when standing in front of the sea waves with his or her back to the cliffs, or to the audience. Track Record also connotes the figure of Edward Krasiński both in the use of the line and the recording position. https://kamilawolszczak.wordpress.com/track-record/ https://vimeo.com/142716679 https://vimeo.com/143587051

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Built-up, installation, 16th media art biennale WRO 2015, Wrocław, PL Time as a sediment that implicitly penetrates everything and everyone. The transparency and viscosity of the installation helps to bring that sediment out, often treated as dirt. The key point of the process is when face meets the tape in the fleeting moment of recollection. It penetrates through the analog layer and the resulting image is digitally fixed and transmitted onto the screen. The shift in time and space, highlighting the ephemerality of existence, creates the image of the passing of time invisible to human eye.

* The independent project Universal Self–Supporting Exhibitions PUK is another edition of project SUW, initiated by Kamila Wolszczak in 2012 in Wrocław, PL. The place of realization of the project is a private property with a surface area of 3000 m2 in the center of village Kumów Plebański in voivodeship Lublin. The land property has been abandoned after the death of the last inhabitants of the Puk family – hence the name of the project. The inhabitants of the village are very close to each other. What unites them both mentally and physically is their everyday work with crops and animals. The nearest city, Chełm, is situated only 18 km from the village, but it feels as if it were further.

Project SUW is designed in a way to not disturb the harmonic way of life of the inhabitants, quite the contrary – we want to create the most natural and symbiotic interaction between the artists and the recipients. https://kamilawolszczak.wordpress.com/artists-puk/

https://issuu.com/kamilaelbieta/docs/puk_suw_katalog_2014

* Temporality, site-specific installation, 2012, SURVIVAL 10. Art Review in Wrocław, PL. Temporality is a project about a young man strong, beautiful, brave, ambitious. He begins his long journey through the development of the excellence in spirit and body. Reality becomes covered with a coat of dreams; the aim has to be realized at all costs.

However, the achievements pass like a dream, only memories remain. A wild bush covers itself with beautiful leaves, then dries up, till, in the end, only a thorn remains.