Research/survey/data collection • Warsaw
Final Residency in Warsaw for the Premiere of the Performance “Kobro. Spaces”
Final residency in Warsaw is designed to prepare premiere of the performance titled "Kobro. Spaces". The performance will directly refers to avant-garde artists from V4 countries. "Kobro. Spaces" is the title of the new production, carried out by an international group of artists who will continue their cooperation started in "Change / project" . The main point of reference of the performance “Kobro” will be concepts avant-garde artists: Polish sculpturer Katarzyna Kobro, but also Czech, Slovak and Hungarian artists chosen by the team invited to create the performance. The team of experts and artists will reflect on the heritage of avant-garde artists and transfer of their concept to the performative, choreographic and social ground. Work on the performance was divided into a series of researches conducted by experts and artists, we want to analyze artist's work in relation to avant-garde and social movements that took place in Central Europe, in particular in the Visegrad countries after World War I, in the interwar years. The first part of the performance will be based on the first research on the subject. Sztuka Nowa performance titled "Black SQR" was referring to the famous painting by avat-garde artist Malevich "Black Square on a White Background", the compositional center was closed in a square. In performanve "LAST: Nijinsky's Last Dance" the compositional center was multiplied and parallel. In the performance "Kobro. Spaces" the question will be how parallel unfold and multiply to open in the composition center. Important partners of the project will be Art Museum in Łódź (the collection of which was initiated and created by Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński) with the participation of curators from these institutions. International team will have direct access to creation and archival documents related to the artists’ works. On the other hand, the artists involved in the performance of the performance, during their artistic researches Warsaw, looked for points of contact and differences in other avant-garde concepts of artists from Visegrad countries. We want to provoke a live dialogue between the ideas of avant-garde artists from four partner countries during the creative process.
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