the Wind in the Willows — workshops with Michał Brzeziński
Michał Brzeziński was born in 1975 and in 2003 he graduated from the Chair of Media and Audiovisual Culture at the University of Lodz. He is a theoretician, artist and curator of Parakino (2008—2010) and international festival In Out (2009—2011) at the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art and NT (New Technologies) gallery (2010) at the municipal cultural centre in Łódź — his projects are unique on a national scale. Since 2012, when he became a pioneer of bio-art, he has remained its only active representative in Poland. His other interests include affective art and affective interaction.
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...
The aim of the workshop is to familiarize participants with Pure Data programming, which can be used to create sound installations that can trigger interactions between plants.
As a result of the workshop, participants will devise and test a program; the testing stage will be conducted in urban conditions, in the streets and parks, where we will be watching people’s and animals’ reactions to plants that will be trying to get in touch with us by means of sounds. Each program user will be recording the surroundings of their plant using a phone inbuilt camera, trying to capture people’s reactions to this human-plant communication. The resulting work, consisting of many videos, will be displayed in the gallery.
