Invited artists
Weronika Fibich works on the border between performing arts, reportage and documentary. He has been involved in activities of the Kana Theatre Centre since 1998. Besides cultural and educational projects implemented within the framework of the Centre, for many years she has been pursuing her own individual artistic path.
She is interested in activities carried out in non-theatrical space; o the border between the private and the public. The most common subject taken be her is the concept of borderland, exclusion, memory and identity. Her working method she call “a drawing from memory”. The value of “a drawing” consists in a connection of the private with the public, the reasoned with the intuitive, the recalled with the sensed. She is the author of several books, a director of theatrical / performative actions, and a co-producer of documentary films and many cultural projects.
Jacek Hałas is a musician, a singer, a dancer, and an explorer of tradition. He was a co-founder of numerous great musical formations (Reportaż, Bractwo Ubogich, Muzykanci, Ket Jo Barat, Lautari, Kwartet Wiejski, Kapela Hałasów). He is interested in procession dancing, swirling dancing, tradition of wandering singers, workshops and educational activities. Since 2005, he and his wife Alicja (who plays folk percussion instruments) as “Nomadzi Kultury” ["Nomads of Culture"], have been travelling around Europe with traditional Yurt, where they present the effects of their many years of exploration and projects carried out jointly with artists from all over the world. For many years Jacek Hałas has been seeking traces of Dziady songs – in living tradition, in records and notes of ethnographers, and in home archives, and has been playing the hurdy-gurdy himself. He is a laureate of many music awards (including two prizes of “Folkowy Fonogram Roku”, the main award related to folk music in Poland).
Paweł Kula – I am interested in border areas of photography, errors in photographic processes, activities outside the program of recording devices, images found and not fixed and non-camera techniques. I also use natural light sensitivity – plants, afterimages, phenomenon of phosphorescence and I build archaic optical toys. I use the potential of these experiences by inventing and running educational workshops for children, adolescents and adults. I am involved in activities of the “Oswajanie Sztuki”. I graduated from the Faculty of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. I live in Szczecin.
Paweł Romańczuk - was born in 1975. He is a musician and a composer. He has been developing research in the field of unusual sound sources since 2006. He is a founder of the Wroclaw-based group Małe Instrumenty providing him the opportunity to pursue his own artistic needs. He is the author of music for films and theatre productions. He builds his own instruments and playing structures, as well as creates sound installations. In 2010 he published the first research paper on the history of toy piano. In 2013 he wrote a textbook titled “Home Experiments with Musical Instruments” dedicated to education in the field of DIY making experimental musical instruments and released jointly with the album by Małe Instrumenty titled Samoróbka. He runs workshops, presentations, lectures and exhibitions related to sound instruments and sound experiments.
Maria Stafyniak – in my art I use various media: drawing, object, installation, photography. The main source of language of my art is an everyday life; the main source of questions and interests is my yoga practice. The themes constantly emerging in my work and in the workshop activities include perception of the image, time, memory and the relation between image and language are. I run workshops for children, adolescents and adults using elements of language of contemporary art that are used as a starting point for decoding and deconstructing contemporary culture. I am involved in activities of the “Oswajanie Sztuki”. I graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. I live in Szczecin.
Natalia Szostak is a visual artist. She was born in Szczecin in 1980. She studied painting at The San Francisco State University in California and graphic art at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She received the Artistic Award of the Mayor of the City of Szczecin for outstanding artistic achievements in 2013 and the awards for outstanding young artists in the international contest organized by the X-Power Gallery in Los Angeles in 2009. Two times she was granted with the scholarship of the Mayor of Szczecin. She is the author of the social project Platerøwka (held between 2011 and 2014), devoted to popularization of art outside the traditional gallery and museum structures. Currently she is a lecturer at the Painting and Drawing Studio at the Visual Arts Faculty of the Academy of Art in Szczecin and a PhD student at the Poznań University of Art. She lives and works in Szczecin.