1st June — ‘Pipephone’ (Rurofon) — a multi-channel installation will be constructed on the Miarki Square in Katowice
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The BWA Contemporary Art Gallery has launched a year-long project, READY, STEADY, ART!, a series of art events throughout the city of Katowice aiming to creatively animate its inhabitants.
The scope of the project is two-dimensional and includes complementary actions: on the one hand, happenings, performances and events by guest artists, on the other — educational-motivational workshops.
The goal is to create situations that contrast reality, stimulating imagination and encouraging reflection our major concerns: identity, culture, ecology and more. Children, youth and the elderly will be involved in the educational-motivational part of the project. Workshop-like meetings with artists will show them various forms of artistic expression, and engage them in the design and realisation of the projects, thus developing their independent artistic direction.
READY, STEADY, ART! — actions in Katowice urban space started in August As we follow the same route every day, we slowly blend in with the landscape and stop responding to external stimuli. To prevent this, the BWA Contemporary...
‘Greenery Swapject’ is working — join us and exchange or give away plants I would like to realise an artistic action which could trigger positive social behaviour. My goal is to set up a space that will become a venue for...
23th July — Monika Goetzendorf-Grabowska — ‘Art-filled sandpit’ A sandpit — a magical playground and venue for meetings. Fun with sand, building castles and other structures are one of the most natural children...
5th and 6th July — Paweł Kula — ‘Observing the New World’ The Earth has proved to be the only planet friendly to us so far. Its view from the universe is a picture that unites the whole humanity and encompasses...
30th June — join Krzysztof Morcinek and create a ‘Spatial Portrait’ in the Silesian Insurgents' Park This workshop is organised within the READY, STEADY, ART! Project and will take the form of an enjoyable activity at the city park. The arrangement of...
art invites you to ‘drop by’ and see the action of Ignacy Czwartos entitled ‘A Painter in Urban Space’ 18th May , 10 a.m. and 16 p.m. Ignacy Czwartos is a painter, a graphic artist, co-founder of Otwarta Pracownia (Open Workshop) Association and...
artistic turmoil in the streets of Katowice will be created by Piotr Lutyński and his ‘Second Life’ Project ‘Second Life’ was launched in New York in 2007. Lutyński's idea — How to bring a dead deer back to life in a big city? — started as a...
This site specific installation design makes use of (audio) space of the city, as well as of natural processes, such as a water flow (a fountain), at the same time allowing for active audience participation in the construction process. Art in public space that grows out of control, like a virus, can be a way for the participants to express their needs. Constructing a large installation using a simple material — PVC pipes — will result in the area becoming both the material and the medium of communication.
The perception of modern city space is dynamic and engages all senses. An interactive structure of the Pipephone can also become a unique audio recording, an urban music score. Contact microphones, installed inside a new acoustic body, will enable recording of a musical piece that will be created in its cells. The soundscape of a city fragment will be examined, paying special attention to acoustic ecology; additionally, sounds coming out of the fountain will be emphasised, and possibly upgraded to ‘hi-fi’.
1st June , 10 a.m. — a multi-channel installation will be constructed on the Miarki Square in Katowice
Marta Karalus
Graduate of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; member of Fundacja Fabryka UTU and Stowarzyszenie SZTUKA CIĘ SZUKA. Curator of the project ‘Dźwiękospacery’ (Soundwalks); educator using modern art; contributor of workshop ideas aimed at young audience; toy designer.
Katarzyna Jankowska
Graduate of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and Museum and Curatorial post-graduate course at Jagiellonian University in Kraków; active in non-governmental organisations in Toruń; leader of Fundacja Fabryka UTU and member of Stowarzyszenie SZTUKA CIĘ SZUKA; contributor of ideas for multi-layered workshops and educational artistic actions focused on modern art; curator of the project ‘Dźwiękospacery’ (Soundwalks).
