May 21, 9:00 PM in the National Music Forum – using this installation/video instrument, the artist will create the visual layer of a concert – the Polish premiere of “L’être contre le vent”, performed together with composer Matthias Krüger and organist Tobias Tobit Hagedorn. This is a ticketed event.
The structure of this visual score was developed based on the sound composition by Matthias Krüger, expanded by the artist’s own set of film miniatures and materials sourced from the WRO Art Center archive. It was built according to the individual’s perception of immersion in sound and the journey through the perceptible auditory space. The form of imaging draws on associations and knowledge, reaching into memory archives, the psychophysiology of vision, optometric recognition, the quality of retinal stimulation, and response in its various phenomena: photopsia, polyopsia, floaters, fusion, color, and other experiences that oscillate around the concept of qualia.
This visual score has no narrative; it is a structure of images rooted in the spirit of video art experimentation and the found footage technique. The concept of air (the vibrating column inside the instrument – the organ) is transformed into an abstract image, while the sonic protagonist – youth – becomes, in a metaphorical sense, the shadow of the wind. Its spectrum appears in the visual structure as an entanglement of possible multilayered materiality. As a primordial phenomenon of the WRO idea, this proposed audiovisual experience invites the audience to feel – so that it may remain forever a truth of autopsy in its individual ability to perceive stimuli.
Recalling Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein: “2.0251 Space, time and colour (colouredness) are forms of objects,” the artist presents filmic scenes in a place typically dedicated to listening, yet through sensory quality tells a visual story about their relationships. She reveals an impression that can arise only when space, time, action, and the semantic object are shaped for our one and only central Self.
The multi-channel installation is made in collaboration with Paweł Janicki.
Tickets can be purchased at the National Forum of Music or online. The event is co-organized by the Musica Electronica Nova festival and the National Forum of Music.
Mira Boczniowicz aka MiRART.73 is a visual artist. She identifies with the Spanish word mira, meaning “look.” Of her work, she says:
“In visual art, my experiences revolve around visual sociology, performativity, optics, subversion, somatic actions, visual sequentiality, and perception as a case of illusion in the here and now. I’m interested in transhumanist currents, quantum theory, bizarre shapes, and the 11th dimension.”
Over the past decade, in cooperation with art foundations, she has been involved in building a collection/film archive. Mira is a member of the WRO Art Center team and THE SELF PRESERVATION SOCIETY. She is a professor at the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, where she teaches in the fields of ideation, knowledge of structures, and visual representation methods in design and art. She is the vice-chair of the eUterus Program.
