Bartosz Zaskórski VILLAGES — Project under the Patronage of BWA Gallery
Keep Both Feet on the Ground — main exhibition of the project Reserve In 1940, Georgia O’Keeffe bought Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. This is where she travelled for her annual respites from New York’s din, to take pictures and paint...
Bartosz Zaskórski — project Villages
A cassette featuring ten audio recordings and one additional piece.
A fictitious research on fictitious venues, conducted with the use of fictitious and vaguely defined methodology. The word 'village' is only a loosely established starting point (meaning, the associations attached to this word).This land, which is the focus of the artist's research, seems to be completely isolated from the outside world and its reality is defined through its inhabitants' fixations. The text's accompanying soundtrack features field recordings, misappropriated samples and various sounds generated by means of analogue equipment that is lying on the floor or the desk. The narrator's voice seems to belong to someone who has grown fed up with the job of being an invisible expounder, doing research on these villages, and then writing and reading his reports.
Text: Bartosz Zaskórski
Voice: Konrad Materek
Soundtrack: Bartosz Zaskórski (Villages 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11), Bartosz Zaskórski and Konrad Materek (Villages 3, 5, 6, 7)
Patronage: BWA Gallery in Katowice and Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art
The cassette was published under the imprint of BDTA
