multimedia performance 2020
(piano, keyboard instruments and a multi-channel video installation)
performed by Dorota Walentynowicz and Małgorzata Walentynowicz for the inauguration of the New Music Days festival in Gdansk. photograph: Pawel Wyszomirski / New Music Days
A black chamber with a piano hidden inside was erected in Suwnicowa Hall, which had been significantly rearranged for the purposes of the experiment. Large screens hung around the chairs arranged in a circle, where one could – depending on the point of seating – watch different fragments of what was happening inside. What we witnessed was not only a performance of contemporary compositions, but rather the artists‘ performative essay on acousmatizm constructed on the basis of those pieces.
The nonchalance with which the sisters executed the performance caused me to play with the suspicion that the project is not new and that once, long ago in a distant studio, it looked much simpler, and only with time it had been encapsulated with auxiliary ideas. One of such superimpositions could be, for example, the thoughts of Friedrich Kittler which we heard being read through the speakers. The enigmatic words of this oracle gave the performance a posture, so that it filled every gap that could be left for the recipient to find the tiniest source of sovereignty.
(from a review by Filip Szałasek for Glissando Magazine, 01/2020)
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