Katarzyna Krakowiak | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Katarzyna Krakowiak

Katarzyna Krakowiak. (1980., Poland) is a visual artist who  in her  work explores sculpture and architecture, using various media, primarily sound. In 2012. she represented Poland at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice (Theme of the Biennale was Common Ground). Her work consisted of solo exhibitions in Polish Pavilion entitled Making the walls quake as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers, and the curator of the exhibition was Michal Libera. This exhibition has received special recognition by the Biennale. In 2006. Krakowiak graduated from the Sculpture Studio Transplantation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, at Miroslaw Balka, where she worked as an assistant since  2004. till 2007.. Her exhibitions include: Who Owns the Air?, Galeria Foksal (Warsaw, 2011,), and Game Theory, South London Gallery (London, 2009)..

Selection  from group exhibitions: KUMU Museum (Tallinn, 2011.) And HMKV (Dortmund, 2011.). In 2011. she worked at the Urban Studio Interior Design (Department of Interior Design) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (with Jacek Dominiczak). Through collaboration with Krzysztof Gutfranskim, as part of a series Ekspektatywa (dacja Bec zmiana, 2010.) she prepared and published a guide for making your own Metaphone.

15.-31.08.2013.

Collaborative project (Katarzyna Krakowiak and Bojan Djordjev) called All.fm Human Antenna Radio Intervention in Rijeka
All.fm. Human Antenna is a long-term art project Katarzyna Krakowiak in which the artist explores the broad issues of free up space through art. Using radio technology that she puts on herself, Krakowiak broadcast its own radio program to passing-by audience that finds itself within range of the transmitter in the chosen environment. It's a performance, whose basic idea is ​​questioning the relationship of space and sound; artist plays with the concepts of voice, sound, space, meaning, narrative, understanding and misunderstanding, noise in communication and dialogue, the right to freedom of speech and the right to silence. The aim is to examine the social cracks and faults, dodge meaning and responsibility towards understanding. The project as a "human antenna - transmitters" has been presented in some form in Jaffa (Israel), Tallinn (Estonia), Gdansk (Poland), Mexico City (Mexico). Kamov residency the artist would like to use for the further development of the project. With the cooperation and the assistance of director Bojana Djordjev she would like to record local sounds to transcribe them to text, scenarios for acoustic mapping of Rijeka. All interesting everyday occurrences will be thoroughly investigated and integrated into further artistic interventions. Rijeka would be a ground for several simultaneous activities: recording and broadcasting programs, and collecting local stories and narratives that will form part of the sound mapping of the city. As a public event, she would hold workshops about making radio system, whose users would be all interested citizens in the local community: students, actors Rijeka's cultural and artistic scene, etc.

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