Duets - residency programme

Duets - residency programme

Field: Visual art, performance, new media, music City: Świdnica

In November 2015 three artistic duets came to Świdnica to work together and to verify their artistic views. In the teams, arranged by the organisers, performers met musicians andvideo makers confronted new media artists. The results are located somewhere in between of these fields. "Duets" is a project carried out by The Homeless Theatre Foundation (currently Inicjatywa B) within the framework of the first competition for non-government organizations and social cooperatives form Wrocław and Lower Silesia.

"CO2" is an audio-visual experiment, inspired by the XIX century avatior, Jan Wnęk.

Artists:

Sławomir Jeśko (Slime) - a turntablist. He is the author of the musi to many performances and scratchings for a variety of musicians. He is a two-time winner of the Polish DJ Championship of the Federation IDA (2013,2014).

Marek Straszak - an artist invilved in a wide range of visual multimedia art projets: animations, interactive installations and visualisations. He is associated with film and motion design. He graduated from the Iniversity of Arts in Berlin and from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wrocław.

Agata Elsner - an actress and performer, involved in the alternative theatre stage in Poznań. An author of many projects in the field of art and food culture.

"Midnight" is a footage, which title refers to the state of suspension between dream and reality. Artists underline the major role of addiction that creates such suspension.

Artists:

Przemysła Matejko - a cameraman, an editor, a cinema and TV production manager. He was involved in the creation of the "Suicide Room" by Jan Komasa and "80 Milion" by Waldemar Krzystek, among others.

Łukasz Palkiewicz (Szatt) - a music producer, a member of the duet Nocne Nagrania (Szatt/Nowok). Co-founder of the Zaburzenia Colletive and the Polish beatmaker of the 2013 in the live act category.

"Retour a la Maison" is a sound installation based on the artists' dreams.

Artists:

Karolina Wycisk - a urator, performer and a theatre critic. Actively supporting the development of various projects in the field of theatre, contemporary dance and performance.

Maciej Hanusek - a musician, composer and an ex-street performer. A co-founder of the progressive rock band THE GATE.